What did Israel Lose in the last war??

Question

Any Bridges, or roads, or Children, or hospitals, or even the Airport??

Please tell me WHAT DID THEY LOSE??

Answer 1

they did not lose but they did not win either, the goal of the whole war was to get back the imprisoned soldiers and to get rid of Hezbollah and they failed to achieve any of the 2 goals, besides...they Had their losses
both sides lost that war,there were no winners

Answer 2

As I believe; the death and destruction of many soldiers and tanks are not a big loss for Israel. On the other side, they destroyed the Lebanese infrastructure, of course this is a major obstacle in front of Hezbollah. And Israel learnt after this war that luck isn’t on their side all the time, and that they should think even a little of the consequences of fighting the enemy. I think the only thing Israel lost is its credibility since it was revealed that Israel was going to attack Lebanon before the two soldiers were kidnapped.

Answer 3

My god Mark you're wrong! For whatever's-sake THERE. WAS. NO. WAR. ON. ISRAELI. SOIL. PERIOD. No one invaded Israel, as opposed to 1948 and 1973, the two most costly wars for Israel. It's not called "war on Israeli soil" because you randomly lob some rockets that fall there. Look it up - Israeli soldiers ended up on the other side of the border, not the other way around. That makes it a war on Lebanese soil. And Tink, I honestly don't see how this means that Israel can't win a fight. I hope that never gets tested, but if it does I think you'll be surprised. No one in Israel doubts the capabilities of the IDF. Rather we doubt our leadership, and steps have already been taken to amend that.

Israel lost lives in including children, and extensive damage was done both to personal property and to nature in the north. In addition, the three kidnapped soldiers are still in captivity.

Answer 4

They lost lives, just like the Lebanese also lost lives. Not as many, but people's parents and children nonetheless.

These comments are racist/prejudiced. A better question would be "What did Hizbollah lose?" Definitely not enough, and your people paid for it/are paying for it too. The unpopularity of Olmert should be telling you that the Israeli people did not want to kill Lebanese people. I like to think that the Lebanese don't want to kill Israeli people either.

To those who think this was "Israel's excuse" to attack Lebanon, it just shows that no one is willing to put the blame where it lies. Even if it was, Israel should never have been given such an "excuse".　

It's terrible to hear everyone talk about these countries and lives lost in these arrogant terms. All of this hatred is what started the war, and killed first the Israeli soldiers, then the Lebanese.

Answer 5

We lost lives of both soldiers and civilians.
We lost faith in the current government.
We lost some faith in our army's abilities. At the end of the day, I think most of us believe, that with competent leadership, our army could have achieved a much better result last summer.
We lost some morale.

Northern Israel isn't extensively developed. There aren't many bridges, significant roads, airports, etc. So materially, the damage wasn't very significant. Although, one of the main train stations in Haifa (#3 city in Israel was damaged) as was one of the power stations in Haifa. I believe some hospitals were also damaged, but most Israeli hospitals are equipped to transfer patient care into the hospitals' bomb shelters, so the hospitals, for the most part, were able to function somewhat normally even though bombs were raining down outside.

The number of civilian deaths wasn't higher because a million people in northern Israel were living in underground bomb shelters during the war.

And you should know that a significant percentage of the people living in northern Israel aren't Jewish, but actually Arabs who support Hizballah. So many of the people that Hizballah kills with its rockets are not Israelis Jews, but rather, Israeli Arabs who openly sympathize with Hizballah.

Answer 6

Past Israeli wars were conducted on Arab soil starting with 1948 up to 1982 wars. This war was new and real war where for the 1st time in Israeli war history the Israeli were forced to fight a war on Israeli soil. In the mind of many ppl around the world the conclusion of the war is Israel can not and will not fight a war using its soil again and the outcome of the next war will be disastrous to Israeli civilians as well.
Michael there were more than 300000 ppl forced to move to south and Hezbollah rackets reached Haifa.

Answer 7

There were 144 Israelis killed, and the Hisb'Allah now thinks they can defeat Israel.

This brings the threat of a war breaking out soon.

Israel foolishly pulled out of Lebanon on the assumption that the Hisb'Allah terrorists would not be permitted to re-arm and to return to their positions in southern Lebanon. Unfortunately, the United Nations once again double-crossed Israel and did not enforce UN Resolution 1701, which would have kept the terrorists where they were at the time of the cease fire. Meanwhile, arms continue to flow from Iran via Syria to the Hisb'Allah, unchecked by the Lebanese army and by UNIFIL, in violation of the UN resolution.

Israel will have to fight another war there sometime soon to protect the civilians living in northern Israel.


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Answer 8

Lives. Both lives of soldiers and lives of innocent civilians. Two Druze soldiers, an Argentian immigrant, a soldier who jumped on a grenade to save his troop, and two Israeli Arab children seem to stay in my mind.
Three kidnapped soldiers. Gilad Shalit was kidnapped by Hamas and Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser were kidnapped by Hizbulla. I pray for them every day.
Trees. We've already begun replanting and building them back, but if one would have traveled to the north in the beginning of the year, it would be obvious that forest fires hurt large ranges of trees.
Roads, bridges, 2 (?) factories and houses were hit, and I'm pretty sure a hospital was , but those are things we can fix.
Tinkerbell is right, globally, we did lose our army reputation. But I think most Israelis still trust them. A war never is easy, and it's hard to say that someone wins.

Answer 9

They lost many things.
Things that all their money cant buy.
They lost the honor, the shame, the steem of several countries all over the world, and above all, the confidence of their own pple, that saw how some guys from hezbollah ( I dont like hezbollah either) kicked them back home

Answer 10

Sometimes you win sometimes you lose this is life no one is perfect or the best nations raise and fall :D