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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Israel has admitted that a public diplomacy effort is the second part of a comprehensive military strategy. After the establishment of the Winograd Commission in 2006, their "hasbara" efforts, or "explanation" for justifying attacks is a prominent focal point after they suffered serious damage to their foreign relations with a number of countries due to claims of brutal human rights abuses and other atrocities (Hezbollah was also guilty of this as well to an extent).
Hezbollah created a "strategic perspective failure" for the Israeli, and thus won the media war through a successful information warfare campaign, which has far reaching effects on Middle Eastern households. Hezbollah was able to use the Internet, their satellite TV station Al-Manar and and a transparent voice through leader Hassan Nasrallah to seriously impact the psyche of Israeli citizens, which, and experts agree, had far more important consequences than the actual phsyical outcome.
Hezbollah, and organizations like it, are far more effective than you think.
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Hezbollah may have won a media war, but I don't see how that would reflect on future military success.
Like I said before Israel was pulling its punches. In a situation where Israel was genuinly threatened they simply wouldn't do so. Also, the media would have a much harder time painting Hezbollah as victems if Iran was directly involved.
In any war with Iran, Hezbollah would be more of a nuisance than genuine threat.