I-8 A shaken Landscape ---- A New Reality

With both Israel and Hezoballah claiming victory, former senior CIA official Milt Bearden says, "the winners and losers are clear."
"Where it counts, Hezbollah is clearly the winner,"

Bearden goes on to say. "For Israel ... not winning is losing. And for an irregular force like Hezbollah, not losing is winning."

What the signals to other oppressed nations in the area and around the world is beyond words.

"Food for thought"
JR
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UPDATE: '06 Aug 19 Saturday
Israeli soldier killed in Lebanon raid

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Hezbollah fighters battled Israeli commandos who landed near the militants' stronghold deep inside Lebanon early Saturday, killing one soldier, in the first apparent large-scale violation of the U.N.-brokered cease-fire between the sides.

UpDate '06 Aug 19 2:00 pm
Beirut fury at 'ceasefire breach'
The raid, in the eastern Bekaa Valley, left one Israeli dead and two injured. The Israeli raid centred on the village of Bodai, west of the city of Baalbek, some 100km (60 miles) north of the Israeli border. Israel said it was trying to disrupt the movement of weapons from Iran and Syria to Hezbollah, and insisted the ceasefire was still intact.

It is the first incident of its kind since the ceasefire came into effect.

In Beirut, the raid prompted an angry response from Mr Siniora. "It is a naked violation of the cessation of hostilities declared by the Security Council," he told reporters. But Israel insisted it had not breached the ceasefire.