No victory for Hizbollah, say Lebanese Christians

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Seems to really be this Geagea fellow, but he makes some interesting points.

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"Israel lost but it does not mean Hizbollah won," said Samir Geagea, chief of the Lebanese Forces political movement. Lebanese Christians "don't like this triumphalism", he said.

"First of all they don't see that it was a victory. They feel on the contrary that it was a big loss for Lebanon, even though they acknowledge that the guerrillas of Hizbollah have done well on the battleground."

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"Its strategy has been shown to be faulty," he said. "They said they should be allowed to keep their weapons to maintain an 'equilibrium of terror' with Israel. As long as they had them, Israel would not dare to attack. This has been shown to be an illusion.

"They justified not handing their arms to the state by saying that if they used them the Israeli response would be localised rather than affecting the whole country. This has also been shown to be wrong. Many things have been broken by this war. Not only the Lebanese infrastructure but many theories and assumptions."

Telegraph

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1. So, Hezbullah lied to the Lebanese.

And now the Lebanese know it.

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2. I doubt that it's that simple. nt

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3. Hezbollah and Likud won this war. Whoopee!!! eom