Muslims: Hezbollah claims victory?

Question

It sounds like they are trying to start a fight. Isn't that childish?

Since when is having your big brother (the UN) come and break up of fight for you winning?

I guess I'll accept their rhetoric if they stop kidnapping people during peace and firing rockets. They need to take care of their own country not worry about Israel.

I'm pretty sure Israel would be happy to go in there and have an actual war if necessary. No sense in pulling your punches if Lebanon won't listen. Might as well just go in, warn cities, then level. That's how its done.

Answer 1

true and here is why:
1. 30000 solders VS 3000 fighters
2.32 days of fighting on the ground Israel was the under dog.
3. Israel was rated te 4 military power in the world today its 13
4. Israel was forced to negotiate the swap of prisoners.
5. for the 1st time in Israeli wars many Israeli cities were attacked
The only thing Israel was able to do from the sky like Bombing airports, electricity stations, water stations, schools ,road ,media centers, hospitals , apartments , and killing civilians.

Answer 2

Well first many people in Hezbollah aren't muslims they are christians and second you are right that the people in Lebanon shouldn't say they won but what happen was because the Israel soliders left the country it is a so called "victory" for them to leave but they did not do much. Also to the other person who said the germens claimed victory in World War 2 well thats cause Hitler was off there back and that is victory.

Answer 3

"Hezbollah, Bearden says, has begun to look a bit like an overmatched boxer who has stood up to 15 rounds of pounding and made it to the closing bell without being knocked out — like the movie character Rocky.

'In the movie," Bearden says, "Rocky lost. But nobody believes that. All you have to do is go the distance. And the reality here is that, I think you're going to see Hezbollah has gone the distance.'"

http://hotzone.yahoo.com/b/hotzone/blogs8074

"Ari Shavit is one of the most respected, veteran establishment journalists in Israel, and today, in the pages of Haaretz, he heaped blame on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for the grave harm that the war in Lebanon has imposed on Israel:

"If Olmert runs away now from the war he initiated, he will not be able to remain prime minister for even one more day. Chutzpah has its limits. You cannot lead an entire nation to war promising victory, produce humiliating defeat and remain in power. You cannot bury 120 Israelis in cemeteries, keep a million Israelis in shelters for a month, wear down deterrent power, bring the next war very close, and then say -- oops, I made a mistake. That was not the intention. Pass me a cigar, please.

"Therefore, the day [Hezbollah leader Hassan] Nasrallah comes out of his bunker and declares victory to the whole world, Olmert must not be in the prime minister's office. Post-war battered and bleeding Israel needs a new start and a new leader. It needs a real prime minister."

Also in Haaretz, Israeli politician Yossi Sarid today said: "This war is, first and foremost, an Israeli tragedy. It is also a Lebanese tragedy and, in fact, an international one. When the Israeli cabinet decided to respond to the abduction of two soldiers by launching a war, it did not take into consideration the fact that no one would stop it ...

"The United States under Bush single-handedly destroyed its deterrent power and that of the free world, including Israel. If the American demon that has taken over Iraq is not so terrible and can be worn down, then just how terrible could the Israeli demon possibly be?"

These columns illustrate several important points:

1) Many Israelis are openly acknowledging that the Israel-Lebanon war has been a disaster for Israel;

2) Waging unnecessary wars, particularly when they are waged poorly, makes a nation much weaker, not stronger (see, e.g., Iraq);

3) Contrary to the reprehensible accusations in this country that opposition to, or criticism of, the Israel-Lebanon war is evidence of anti-Israel bias or even anti-Semitism, many people are opposed to the war -- and critical of President Bush's foolishly unrestrained support for it -- precisely because it is so harmful to Israel;

4) Israel's democracy is sufficiently healthy that journalists and other citizens not only can criticize the country's leader in the middle of a war but can call for his resignation -- without being branded a traitor, a subversive, a coward and all of the other slurs to which Bush critics in the U.S. are routinely subjected. "

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html

Answer 4

I am not so sure anyone won.....but if being run out of the southern Lebanon area, is winning....then I guess so......IF Israel think that taking 18-20 miles of Lebanon is winning, then I gues Israel did.....I don't think either actually has won....but the side that may get more of what they wanted, is definitely Israel, they mainly wanted to push them back so they couldn't lob the cheap missiles in at them, and get their two kidnapped soldiers back, per the resolution, they should ahve both those.

Answer 5

he's claiming victory because Hezbollah's purpose become to shop Israel out of Lebanon. they have succeeded in this, and in doing so have garnered an huge volume of help from some thing of the Arab international. till Hezbollah is effectively disarmed, Israel has lost horribly.

Answer 6

Umm.. Hezbollah is still there, take a look at the terrain.

They are fortified AND mobile at the same time. That came from years of preparation. The IDF will not engage them because they always get the worst of it. Thats why they went waaaay around to ferry small units to the river and claim victory.

The problem for the occupiers is that Hezbollah IS Lebannon.
Doctors, Lawyers, Teachers..etc.

Bombing houses, bridges and roads and dirt cannot go on forever.

Answer 7

Israel is now out of Lebanon !
Their only objective was to kill and destruct the organization of Hezbollah .

They didn't success !

So Hezbollah isn't too wrong to try to claim their victory

Answer 8

Whats so surpising about that? Something about the Arab mentality that refuses to accept reality even as it stares them in the face. Remember Sadam claiming victory after the first Gulf War? Or what about the Information Minister claiming they were destroying the American Forces as M1 Abrams tanks rolled into Baghdad.

Answer 9

Childish is an understatement in my opinion. They were so quick to agree to this ceasefire, much more cooperative about it than the Israelis that’s for sure. Hey, I heard Hezbollah was calling it re-arming period NOT a ceasefire.

Answer 10

Isn't Israel the one who needs the big brother of the US to fight for it?

Who cares who "won" and who "lost". Can't we all just get along?