Hizbullah and Israeli propaganda

"Thus, one of Israel's chief accomplishments in the Second Lebanon War - distancing Hezbollah from its northern frontier - is slowly vanishing. The Shi'ite organization, which was dealt a severe blow in the summer of 2006, has recovered at an impressive rate in the military, civilian and political spheres.

"It was not a knockout blow, but it was sufficiently painful to force Hezbollah to grow up," says Prof. Eyal Zisser, an expert on Syria and Lebanon, the director of Tel Aviv University's Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, and the university's dean of humanities." Zisser knows about Lebanon as much as Mini-Hariri knows about nuclear physics. (thanks Olivia)