Hezballah was ready to surrender before cease fire

Jerusalem Post:

"The cease-fire acted as a life jacket for the organization [at the end of the Second Lebanon War]," a Hizbullah officer said in an interview aired by Channel 10 on Tuesday.

In the interview, the unnamed officer said Hizbullah gunmen would have surrendered if the fighting last summer had continued for another 10 days.

His statement sharply contrasted with those made by Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah on several occasions since the monthlong war.

At the end of the war, Nasrallah said his organization had gained a "divine victory."

The officer shown on Channel 10 said the organization's gunmen had been running low on food and water and facing rapidly diminishing arms supplies.

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I think that Israel agreed to the cease fire because it did not want to pay the price for operations that would have been needed to clear the remaining Hezballah fighters. The war exposed the lack of preparedness of its reserves and the military's lack of a plan for ground operations to remove Hezballah from southern Lebanon.

That being said, the Hezballah attack was a disaster for that organization and a strategic defeat for both Hezballah and Iran. It exposed the shallowness of the missile threat against northern Israel with which Iran hoped to deter an attack by Israel on its nuke facilities. The ineffectiveness of the missiles was ignored by the media, but the Iranians and Hezballah had to be disappointed in their ability to inflict casualties.