It’s finally over bar the shouting. Israel has had their arse handed to them on a plate by Hizbullah, and been shown up as not the force everyone thought them to be. They failed in all their main objectives:

- Hizbullah is as strong as ever

- Hizbullah will still be right up against the border

- Hizbullah still has loads of rockets left

Sure, they demolished half the country, but that’s the easy part when you’re the only side with an air force, and it’s still a total fuck-up, since the rationale behind it was that it would piss off the local population and turn them against Hizbullah. In fact, it had the opposite effect. Not only did the non-partisan section of the local population swing overwhelmingly against Israel, so did huge amounts of the global population. Israel has been shown to be the overly aggressive bully that it really is, and it’s going to be a very long time before they manage to re-erect the “woe is me” facade they traditionally use to justify their actions.

Finally, now that the Lebanese side of things has died down, expect to hear reports of Israel’s dodgy actions which occurred in Gaza while the world was focussed on Lebanon.