Gaza is not Lebanon; Hamas is not Hezbollah…
Gaza Is Not Lebanon and Israel’s campaign against Hamas may succeed says Thomas Donnely and Danielle Pletka at The Weekly Standard.
The conventional wisdom about the incursion by Israeli ground units into Gaza, mirrored in Sunday’s Washington Post, is that “Israeli leaders run the risk of repeating their disastrous experience in the 2006 Lebanon war, when they suffered high casualties in ground combat with Hezbollah.” Apparently, reporters and pundits are even more prone to refighting the last war than generals: Gaza is not Lebanon; Hamas is not Hezbollah and, most critically, Israel now is not Israel in 2006.
Andrew Exum, at Abu Muqawama, asks why is it so quiet along the Blue Line? He lists three points on why Hezbollah has been so quiet these past two weeks and solicits AM’s readership to sound off in the comments. Ex also points to what he considers as good an article on the fighting in Gaza as any he has read in an American newspaper by Charles Levinson at The Wall Street Journal.
As forces move deeper into Gaza, Israel’s leaders seek to avoid the mistakes made in the ambitious 2006 invasion of Lebanon.
Tom Ricks also wants to know why Hezbollah is being so quiet on the Israeli-Lebanese border.
