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Lol, we killed a few Hezbollah soldiers and generals in the last few years and Hezbollah said they would avenge them, got inside Israel and got blown up
Nasrallah hiding like a rat, Lebanon in shambles, 0 economy, 0 stability
Israel humiliated Hezbollah in 2006, 750 Hezbollah rats died while 121 Israeli soldiers died, next war this ratio will be much better
You are out of touch with reality apartheid Jew:-
Israel can't defeat Hezbollah: Israeli expert
Israel cannot defeat Hezbollah in a direct engagement and the Lebanese guerrilla group would inflict heavy damage on the Israeli home front if war broke out, a former Israeli national security adviser said Thursday.
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Israel can't defeat Hezbollah: Israeli expert
By Reuters Staff3 MIN READ
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel cannot defeat Hezbollah in a direct engagement and the Lebanese guerrilla group would inflict heavy damage on the Israeli home front if war broke out, a former Israeli national security adviser said Thursday.
Though outnumbered and outgunned, Hezbollah held off Israelās advanced armed forces in a 2006 war and fired more than 4,000 rockets into Israeli territory. The group has a domestic political base and has since bolstered an arsenal that Israel describes as a strategic threat.
Tensions between Israel and Hezbollahās Iranian and Syrian backers have stoked expectations of renewed violence in Lebanon.
āIsrael does not know how to beat Hezbollah,ā said Giora Eiland, an army ex-general who served as national security adviser to former prime ministers Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert.
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āTherefore a war waged only as Israel-versus-Hezbollah might yield better damage on Hezbollah, but Hezbollah would inflict far worse damage on the Israeli homefront than it did 4-1/2 years ago,ā he told Israel Radio.
Echoing serving Israeli officials, Eiland said:
āOur only way of preventing the next war, and of winning if it happens anyway, is for it to be clear to everyone ... that another war between us and Hezbollah will be a war between Israel and the state of Lebanon and will wreak destruction on the state of Lebanon.
āAnd as no one -- including Hezbollah, the Syrians or the Iranians -- is interested in this, this is the best way of creating effective deterrence.ā
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Except for a deadly August skirmish between Israeli forces and the regular Lebanese army, the border has been mostly quiet.
But Israelis have been watching for signs that Hezbollah, should it be named in an impending U.N. indictment over the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, will push back by consolidating power in Beirut.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has argued that Hezbollahās role in governing Lebanon would make the country fair game in any future war involving the Shiite militia.
Eiland said such a scenario would have āthe entire world crying out for a ceasefire within two days,ā which would be more in the Israeli interest āthan having to deal directly with every one of (Hezbollahās estimated) 40,000 rockets.ā
Writing by Dan Williams; Editing by Michael Roddy
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