Former “Israeli” Advisor: “Israeli” Enemy Cannot Defeat Hizbullah

A former "Israeli" national security adviser admitted on Thursday that the "Israeli" enemy cannot defeat Hizbullah in a direct engagement, predicting that the Lebanese Resistance group would inflict heavy damage on the "Israeli" home front if war broke out.

"Israel does not know how to beat Hizbullah," said Giora Eiland, an "Israeli" army ex-general who served as national security adviser to former Prime Ministers Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert.

"Therefore a war waged only as "Israel"-versus-Hizbullah might yield better damage on Hizbullah, but Hizbullah would inflict far worse damage on the "Israeli" home front than it did 4-1/2 years ago," he told "Israel" Radio.

"Our only way of preventing the next war, and of winning if it happens anyway, is for it to be clear to everyone ... that another war between us and Hizbullah will be a war between "Israel" and the state of Lebanon and will wreak destruction on the state of Lebanon. And as no one - including Hizbullah, the Syrians or the Iranians -is interested in this, this is the best way of creating effective deterrence."

Eiland said such a scenario would have "the whole world crying out for a ceasefire within two days," which would be more in the "Israeli" interest "than having to deal directly with every one of (Hizbullah's estimated) 40,000 rockets."