Joanna
Colin Brace wrote:
> Learning from Its Mistakes
> Charles Glass on Hizbullah
>
> Like Israel's previous enemies, Hizbullah relies on the weapons of the
> weak: car bombs, ambushes, occasional flurries of small rockets and
> suicide bombers. The difference is that it uses them intelligently, in
> conjunction with an uncompromising political programme. Hizbullah's
> achievement, perhaps ironically for a religious party headed by men in
> turbans, is that it belongs to the modern age. It videotaped its
> ambushes of Israeli convoys for broadcast the same evening. It
> captured Israeli soldiers and made Israel give up hundreds of
> prisoners to get them back. It used stage-set cardboard boulders that
> blew up when Israeli patrols passed. It flew drones over Israel to
> take reconnaissance photographs – just as the Israelis did in Lebanon.
> It had a website that was short on traditional Arab bombast and long
> on facts. If Israelis had faced an enemy like Hizbullah in 1948, the
> outcome of its War of Independence might have been different.
>
> full: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n16/glas01_.html
>