Jul. 18, 2006 10:52 | Updated Jul. 18, 2006 18:21
IDF: One week to remove threat in North
By YAAKOV KATZ, JPOST STAFF, AND AP
Forty to fifty percent of Hizbullah's military capability has been destroyed in the six days of the IDF counter-attack following last Wednesday's Hizbullah raid in northern Israel, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
The IDF, it is understood, believes it needs another week or so minimum to achieve its military goals in terms of alleviating Hizbullah's capacity to threaten Israel.
If the report is true, or even close to true, then hooray. A weakenened Hezbollah is good for Israel, good for Lebanon, and good for the world.
But reading the story, I can't help but remember all of the previous times that we've been told about either the Israeli military squashing the enemy.
Hezbollah was founded in the midst of an Israeli offensive in Lebanon in 1982. The goal of that offensive, and the 18 occupation that followed it, was to eliminate attacks and threats to Israel from Lebanon. Invasion and occupation didn't crush them then. I'm not convinced it's going to work now.
The report also reminds me of all of the times we Americans have been told that our enemies have been squashed. The Taliban were "beaten" now they're back. The mission in Iraq was "Accomplished" three years and 50,000-100,000 lives ago. Zarqawi's death was a turning point. Zarqawi's death will cripple the insurgency, etc.
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