Middle East War Expands, page-1491

Nasrallah has never accomplished the level of asymmetrical destruction he has achieved in the past three months:

On the longer than 100 kilometer front all Israeli military bases have been targeted, as well as its settlements, with a total of 670 operations.
48 border posts have been targeted 495 times as well as 50 posts behind the borderline.
17 settlements, where Israeli soldiers went into hiding, have also been attacked.
Technical surveillance equipment with a cost above a $100 million has been destroyed.
The resistance published 90 videos and photos that showed the destruction of Israeli tanks and other vehicles.
Israeli media is silent about the resistance successes.
The eight Israeli hospitals nearest to the border have taken in some 2,000 wounded soldiers.
230-300,000 settlers have fled from northern Israel.
120,000 Israeli soldiers have to stay in the north to secure the border.

I have never seen Izzrael take such a beating and not mount a complete carpet bombing of the attacker.

By comparison with previous conflicts, it's as if Hezbollah is leasurely wrecking Izzrael's Northern occupation while merely taking a few off hand slaps in return.

Moreover, the hesitancy of Izzrael to go full throttle into Lebanon is the ultimate measure of Nasrallah's enduring 2006 achievement:

He made Izzrael perpetually terrified of a direct invasion of Lebanon and thereby increased Lebanon's overall security.

Nasrallah's star just began to shine in 2006. Should Izzrael play the wrong move, his star will doubtless reach it's zenith.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 6 2024 0:49 utc