Reply #16: This wasn't a PR war

[Fredda Weinberg]

And it's simplistic to reduce it to those terms. Israel had to discourage such "stunts" in the future and from Nasrallah's "apology", I'd say she succeeded. Hezbollah's military has and is being disrupted and that was the stated goal of the operation.

There could be no definitive military victory - and Israel, unlike the US, recognized that fact and accepted the cease-fire on her own terms, which is holding. Under the circumstances, I'd say Israelis are doing an excellent job of reading the situation on the ground and responding inteligently.