Who is the winner of this round? Hezbollah or Israel?

Question

I would go for Hesbollah

over 900 casualties

isreal killed 763 lebanese most of them civilians(more than half)
hezbollah killed 147 Israelis. out of them 109 were soldiers

Answer 1

There are no winners in war, 763+147 people lost their lives. What are you talking about?

Answer 2

All I see is losers. Israel has lost both people and the security it desired. Hezbollah has lost far more people than has been admitted and is soon to be removed from southern Lebanon. Though it is riding high in the eyes of many arabs now, as the Lebanese add up the destruction they will not only blame Israel. Of course Lebanon is the biggest loser in this. Billions in damage and lost GDP...set back 10 years in development.

The winners? Bashar al-Assad of Syria: may have regained some relevance albeit fleeting. Iran: Got the attack on Israel that it wanted, didn't get bloodied, diverted attention from their nuclear weapons program for a few weeks.

Answer 3

Out of the 763 lebanese dead (if thats true, theyve been caught lying before), many were hizbollah fighters. Hizbollah is plainclothes, and often convince thier family to stay behind after israel warns them.

Lebanese media sees a dead hizbollah (weapon nearby or moved) as a civilian death often, and only reports a hizbolah death if they HAVE to because that hizbollah happened to be in uniform.

While a woman and child are undoubdetly civilian casualties, they do not make up the majority of civilain deaths. While there are some adult men civilian deaths, i know that most deaths of men are deaths of hizbolah warriors. Propaganda wars want more civilians deaths.


The clear winner of round 1 is Israel.
1) Some civilian casualties on one side or another dont determine winner (or looser)
2) Enemy fighters killed determines winner
3) Enemy leader killed can also determine winner.

So i would readjust those numbers to show
1) Hizbollah forces dead ( its higher than you think)
2) Israel forces killed
And determine victor of round 1 from that if numbers is how you want to rate this thing.

Answer 4

The us won this round. Primarily by getting attention away from the Iraq fiasco.

The US is the most powerful country in the world so the US winning is rather predictable. It would have been quite a fluke for the US not to win.

The US is forcing the UN on Lebanon. The UN forces will take over Israel's job, killing thousands more Lebanese over the coming months to carry out the will of the USA. The will of the USA is not to kill off Hizbollah members (just like in the case of Iraq, the media presented us with false reasons for war), but to capture them and torture them for any and all information they may have about the US' next targets: Iran and Syria.

The US will be able to use this as an opportunity to further destabilize the entire region, especially Syria and Iran, making them even poorer and less able to defend themselves for when the US does eventually make it's move on Iran next year. Americans can expect continuous war drum-beating from the media and government against Iran from now until we invade next year.



You ask who won this round. Well it may appear that Hizbollah has won this battle, but no, not really, and the US is of course going to win the war (against Lebanon/Syria/Iran), which is just a small war in the bigger war that is occuring now. It's called the war on terrorism but the accurate title would be The War for US Domination of the Middle East and it's Oil.

Answer 5

You need to grow up if you think that body count is a scoring system for a game.

First of all, in war, body count doesn't necessarily indicate the winner. If 10 people are holding a fortified position against 250, and they kill 200 before being wiped out, they still lost.

Second, war is not a game, although those who have never had the courage, fortitude or ability to do so may think that at times. It is a horrifying experience for those involved. Professional soldiers do it because that is what we are trained and paid for, it doesn't mean we like it.

In war, there are no winners.

Grow up.

Answer 6

There is no winner in this war. Many mothers and fathers will grieve for young sons who were killed on the battlefield. We are barbaric people who can fly to the moon but who cannot get along with each other. Think of how wonderful this world would be if we could only work together toward a common cause. We could make a paradise for ourselves instead of hell. No one can argue about the war in good conscience.

Answer 7

This round was won by nobody but definitely lost by Israel. Israel has lost face in the eyes of the world through deceit and cruelty by deliberately bombing innocent women and children and destroying the infrastructure of Lebanon without provocation.

Too many bombs, too much arrogance characterizes Israel. It is now past time that the US quit funding this debacle. US citizens now will take notice of how the aid is used, which Israel never had scrutiny before; it was always assumed that Israel acted in self-defense.

Answer 8

Hezbollah. The Israeli army failed to send in the Intel operatives and locate the key operatives instead of bombing and killing civilians which only supports insurgents. No conventional army can win against insurgents, to win, one must accept that they will train a force with a license to kill.

Answer 9

There are only losers if you look at it from a humane standpoint. How can you call this thing winning for either side? And the numbers that you bring up were real people who will never come back, not the usual casualties of computer games.

Since when is killing winning?

Answer 10

Israel...
the whole country destroyed...casualties should counted in person, not in the soldiers or not...
And how long would it take to rebuild their country after the war end is another way to look at.
This war should not started anyway by stupid reason and over reacting way of both sides.