摘要：A year has passed since the end of the Second Lebanon War, and the upheaval it set off within Israel has yet to subside. Most Israelis see the military campaign that took place in southern Lebanon during July and August 2006 as, in no uncertain terms, a bitter failure. The efforts of Israel’s military and political leaders, headed by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, to portray the war as an impressive security accomplishment as well as their claims that Israel in fact “won on points,” as former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) chief of staff Dan Halutz claims, have not been accepted by the general public. Israelis have learned the hard way that, at least as far as the Second Lebanon War is concerned, Henry Kissinger was right when he said: “The guerilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win.” The gap between the public’s expectations and what actually took place has left everyone asking the same disturbing question: How could this happen?
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