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so what specifically should they be proud of? their indiscriminate rocket attacks? their urban guerellia tactics? seems to me it was the international community that drove out isreal, because the ground offensive, while with losses on both sides, was pretty sustainable in terms of kill ratio.
As I wrote previously, they should be proud that they survived the air attacks and they held off the ground assault. If you want me to go on, they should also be proud that their indiscriminant rocket attacks killed more soldiers than civilians - which is something that the Israelis can't say about their supposedly accurate bombs.
im sorry? how much soldiers did they kill with their rockets? only two or three that im aware of. if you would care to enlighten me...? not to mention that the relatively low number of casualities on the isreali side wasnt due to hezbollahs mercy, but rather thanks to isrealis knowing better than to remain inside buildings that are beng bombarded.
Only two or three? I see you haven't been paying attention.
I think you're the one that hasn't been paying attention. One rocket killed twelve soldiers. That's it. And it wasn't because Hizballah was aiming at any military targets. It's because they happenned to hit a group of soldiers that were waiting for orders near Kiryat Shmone.
Must I really go back through all 60 pages of this thread to pull out other examples where Hezbollah rockets killed soldiers?
As for what Hezbollah was targeting, this is from the link I dropped a few posts ago: Hezbollah's Strategic Threat to Israel.
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Any Hezbollah barrage will not likely be random, however. The group's external intelligence service has concentrated recently on targets and trajectory algorithm selection. In January 2005, Israeli security detained Danish citizen Iyad ash-Shua after he was caught filming northern Israeli military installations on behalf of Hezbollah.[9] The arrests of other Hezbollah agents have indicated the group's special interest in fuel refineries and military bases around Haifa.
Moreover, Hezbollah no longer depends exclusively on human intelligence. The group now has access to Iranian-designed and controlled Mirsad One unmanned aerial vehicles. While crude and rudimentary, the Mirsad is able to transmit live video footage, a capability instrumental in scouting targets that were previously inaccessible to Hezbollah human intelligence agents.[10] In addition to the Mirsad, Hezbollah planners now have access to commercially available, high-resolution satellite photographs and open-source geographical imagery offered by companies such as GlobeXplorer and Google. These may enhance Hezbollah's targeting ability.
While Hezbollah would launch its rockets with the goal of causing mass casualties to shock and demoralize the Israeli population, they would also likely attempt smaller but more devastating infrastructure assaults. High-value targets would include the industrial section of Haifa, whose sprawling petrochemical plants and oil refinery would be vulnerable to bombardment. The loss of the Haifa refinery, one of only two such installations in Israel, would threaten Israel's economic security. Hezbollah could also launch rockets against the city's port and Matam Park, a hub of Israeli high-tech development. Even minor damage could lead to serious disruptions in Israel's delicate economic framework. The vulnerability of the Israeli economy to a Hezbollah rocket attack was demonstrated by events in 1996 when the group fired over 500 Katyushas into northern Israel; Israeli officials placed the cost of the relatively minor two-week assault at approximately US$100 million.[11]
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