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Who is stronger hezbollah or israel?
It entirely depends on how you define "strength". The Israeli Army is certainly much better armed than Hezbollah and while Israel has invaded Lebanon in ground invasions, Hezbollah has never attempted a ground invasion of Israel. Hezbollah has no army that could contest Israel in traditional international combat (such as was seen during World War II for example). However, Hezbollah's effectiveness lies in its ability to blend into local areas and put its men into locations not easily discoverable to Israeli soldiers. This was why the 2006 Hezbollah-Israel War has usually been seen as a stalemate or slight Hezbollah victory even though all fighting occurred in Lebanon and Hezbollah incurred many more casualties; Israel was not able to remove Hezbollah from Lebanon as it had previously been able to remove the PLO from Lebanon in 1982. However, to me, strength is about the idea to form a society where people desire peace and love in their lives even when their neighbors try to act divisively. In this way, Israel is clearly stronger. Regardless of any particular Israeli government, the leadership of the Israeli Army is disinclined from international conflict and openly differs to a civilian government that wants long-term peace (whose conditions vary with the politics of the day). Hezbollah has made clear that they are wholly disinterested in any peace or settlement, saying in their organizational charter that even if all of the Islamic countries made peace with Israel (including a future Palestine), they would continue to fight to oppose Israel.
Who won the Israel-Lebanon War of 2006?
Answer 1Wherever you see a military conflict in the history of modern Israel, and that Israel still exists after it, you know that Israel didn't lose. Had Israel lost, it would no longer exist.Just as on so many previous occasions of violence and military action, there was nothing worthy of the world's attention going on until Israel fired back. Later, Israel withdrew its forces from Lebanon at the request of the UN, in return for the stationing of a UN 'Peacekeeping' force in southern Lebanon, and a guarantee that the shelling and rocketing of northern Israeli towns and farms from Lebanon would be prevented.Answer 2Contrary to the view presented in Answer 1, the 2006 War in Lebanon was not an existential war for Israel (as opposed to the 1948-9, 1967, and 1973 wars). Therefore, judging Israel's victory or defeat cannot come from "and the flag was still there." The dominant opinion, both in Israel and the Arab World was that Israel lost with a differing opinion on how badly.There is still research being done on why Israel was much less successful in the Lebanese War than it had been in previous engagements. The general theory is that Israel was unable to effectively fight a counter-insurgency war in hostile territory. Hezbollah was too entrenched in the various south Lebanese neighborhoods for Israel to do anything less than carpet-bombing if they wanted to get everything, but Israel refused to engage in such conduct and attempted to go door to door. Hezbollah also had superior command over the terrain since they were fighting on "home ground". Israel's stated aim was to either deal a massive blow to Hezbollah, recover soldiers Regev and Goldwasser or both. They achieved neither. (Regev and Goldwasser's corpses were eventually recovered in a prisoner transfer deal with Hezbollah a few years later.)
Can Hezbollah invade Israel?
Answer 1Yes, they can as they have many allies throughout the middle east and Israel does not know where the headquarters are.Answer 2There are two parts to that question: 1) Can Hezbollah breach Israel's borders? and 2) If they can do this, can they sustain this breach?1) Yes. Hezbollah proved that it can breach Israeli defenses when they kidnapped the Israeli soldiers Regev and Goldwasser. This, however, was a coordinated attack with months of planning as opposed to a morning jaunt. Hezbollah needs to use a concerted effort to breach Israeli defenses.2) No. Hezbollah showed in the 2006 Israeli-Hezbollah War, that Hezbollah is an insurgent fighting group. Such a group can only fight a defensive war, not an offensive one that requires occupation of hostile territory. Hezbollah requires loyal allies to live in the territory to be invaded. Israelis (whether Jewish or Arab) have no love of Hezbollah and this would require the army to fight out in the open where the Israeli army is much more effective. It is telling that during the 2006 Israeli-Hezbollah War that the only attacks perpetrated within Israeli borders were missile attacks as opposed to military raids or direct combat. As concerns Hezbollah's allies, Iran, for all of its bluster, is not willing to expend military troops to bolster the regime of Bashar al-Assad (a regime it still financially backs) while Syria is in the midst of a civil war that Iran could effectively end. How much less is Iran interested in assisting an invasion of a country that has a far stronger military capability and where it has no internal allies.
Who won the Lebanon war?
Israel won the Lebanon war militarily, but Hezbollah may be said to have won politically. Israel achieved its goals, which was to 1) establish a buffer-zone in Southern Lebanon and force Hezbollah to withdraw from this area, 2) reach a complete ceasefire, effectively ceasing the low-scale conflict which had lasted since 1982, 3) bring an end to the rocket attacks, and 4) the deployment of Lebanese Armed Forces in Southern Lebanon. As a result of the war, for the first time in 40 years, the Lebanese state was able to control it's southernmost land militarily. Although Hezbollah officially denies it, an Israeli investigation shows that between 600 and 700 Islamic fighters died during the conflict. Hezbollah lost most of its long-range missiles, and the Israeli Air Force also stroke a serious blow to the rest of Hezbollah's rocket arsenal. In this respect, it's clear that Israel fought a successful war against Hezbollah. However, the amount of damage and devastation visited on Lebanon has become a public relations benefit to Hezbollah.
Why does USA see Hezbollah as Terrorists and not as the defenders of Lebanon which they are?
Answer 1Because the policy of USA is hijacked by Zionists and Zionists hate Shia Islam too much and so being terrorist is only an excuse to destroy Shia Islam in the world. Hezbollah is not seeking power in Lebanon and is a good group and not aggressive but defensive.Answer 2The question as written makes a major assumption about the nature of Hezbollah, namely that it is a defender of the Lebanese people. While this is certainly a message that Hezbollah espouses, it is quite incorrect.Hezbollah is a belligerent militant organization whose primary goal is to create a Shiite Theocracy in Lebanon. There are vast numbers of Lebanese who would be directly harmed or threatened should such an eventuality occur, namely Maronite Christians, Sunni Muslims, and other minorities, who would lose rights or station. Secondly, and more importantly, Hezbollah does not actually secure any benefits for the Lebanese people in terms of protecting them from foreign enemies. Hezbollah killed numerous Lebanese people in the Lebanese Civil War while fighting alongside the Syrian Army. They also fired the first shots in the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah War by kidnapping two Israeli soldiers. During that war, Hezbollah further increased civilian casualties by drawing Israeli soldiers into small villages, resulting in a high level of urban warfare and a high level of civilian casualties. Blame for this direction of the war also lies squarely at Hezbollah's feet. Finally, Hezbollah opposes the will of the Lebanese people. In 2009, when Hezbollah did not form part of the Lebanese Government (instead being part of the Opposition), they brought tanks into Central Beirut and demanded concessions. This violates the principles of democracy that the Lebanese people have agreed to follow and is directly opposed to their wishes.Hezbollah endangers civilians, has a violent ideology, and discusses the murder of foreign civilians almost daily. That in combination with its thousands of soldiers and its use of violence to terrorize its enemies, has resulted in the USA and many European countries' quite reasonable naming of Hezbollah as a terrorist militant organization.
How has Hezbollah effectively defended the Palestinian People?
Answer 1Hezbollah has perpetuated violence between the Palestinians and Israel. So far this has not done any good for anyone, but who knows, perhaps someday Israel will be destroyed, all the Jews will be killed, and the Palestinians will be happy.Answer 2Hezbollah mostly supports Lebanon against being occupied by Israel. currently parts of Lebanon like Kfarchouba, Al-Ghajar and Shebaa farms are occupied by Israel and 11,000 anti-Israel activists and fighters from Palestine and Lebanon are held in Israel prisons and 70% of Palestinians are living out of their country in poorly situation and waiting to back to their homes and lands. Hezbollah supports Palestinians by resisting against occupation and Imperialism. Hezbollah supports Palestine Resistance Movement in different ways. for example providing them technology for making home made missiles to be used against Israel attacks. Palestinians used their home made rockets against Israel. many of Hezbollah supports for Palestine Resistance fighters are secret because Israeli forces immediately terror by air attack or kidnap any known activist in Palestine or Lebanon. currently 11,000 of them are in Israel prisons. Hezbollah condemns any attack of Israel on any Palestine of Lebanon people. but western media re highly biased about Hezbollah and does not cover news about Hezbollah properly.The government of Lebanon is not controlled by Hezbollah and so Hezbollah can not solve all problems of Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon. governments of Lebanon in many cases have been in secret friendship relations with Israel. for example supporting Phalangist extremists against Hezbollah.Hezbollah according to Qur'an consider all Muslims their brothers.The believers are but brothers, so make settlement between your brothers. And fear Allah that you may receive mercy. (49:10)the Palestine Resistance movement members are both Shia and Sunni Muslims but Hezbollah consider any Palestinian a wronged who their homes are occupied by a arrogant regime and according to Islam a Muslim has duty to help any wronged even if he is not Muslim. but liberating all remaining occupied lands of Lebanon and making all resistance prisoners from Israel prisons has priority for Hezbollah. but supporting Palestine Resistance and even any wronged people all over the world is mission of Hezbollah as a Twelver Shia Islam party.Answer 3Hezbollah has often claimed to defend the Palestinian people by resisting Israeli occupation, but this resistance has not actually resulted in any gains for Palestinians. While it is certainly arguable that Hezbollah has been successful in pressuring Israel to withdraw from southern Lebanon, which was under Israeli occupation from 1982-2000, no senior Middle East scholar has ever credited Hezbollah with any of the Palestinian political or military gains vis-a-vis Israel. The Oslo Accords were a result of the First Palestinian Intifada, which had no Hezbollah involvement.In terms of the Gaza Strip, Hezbollah is tangentially related since Hamas, the occupying force in the Gaza Strip, is also a terrorist/paramilitary organization supported by Iran. However, Hamas has made no serious gains against Israel despite its posturing. Since the Hamas assumption of power in 2007, the situation for Palestinians in the Gaza has consistently deteriorated with the one exception that Palestinian fishing rights, which had been severely curtailed after the First Gazan War of 2008-2009 where minimally restored after the Second Gazan War of 2012. Between the two Gazan Wars, approximately 1500 Palestinians died with minimal Israeli casualties. Thankfully, since Hezbollah has done little to help the Palestinians in these conflicts, they cannot he held accountable for Hamas' deplorable mistake of putting its civilian population in the Israeli line of fire.As concerns politics in Lebanon, Hezbollah has actually used its political clout to ignore the Palestinians living in Lebanon (who represent nearly a tenth of the overall Lebanese population). While Hezbollah is not responsible for any of the several attacks on Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon (such as Sabra, Shatilla, and Nahr el-Bared) they did not take any actions to prevent these massacres, nor did they condemn those who did. Additionally, Hezbollah has never suggested or supported a normalization of papers measure for Lebanese Palestinians. A "normalization of papers" could be as minimal as providing Lebanese Palestinians with working papers so that they could get jobs in Lebanese companies or it could be full Lebanese citizenship. Supporting a measure like this would certainly be in the Palestinian interest, but Hezbollah has seen fit to ignore this problem, which is no different than the rest of the Lebanese electorate. However, the other groups do not claim to be the defenders of the Palestinian people.
Is Hamas a terrorist group?
According to the U.S. Department of State, Hezbollah is still a terrorist group. Here are some reasons why the U.S. classifies Hezbollah as a terrorist group.A History of ViolenceHezbollah's violence against the U.S. began in 1982, with the kidnapping - but eventual release - of David Dodge. The most deadly violence occurred in 1983, when Hezbollah suicide bombers attacked the U.S. Embassy and marine barracks in Beirut. These two attacks resulted in the deaths of three-hundred and four Americans. Likewise, in 1984, Hezbollah attacked the U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut, killing two Americans and twenty-two Lebanese. During this period, Hezbollah also bombed a restaurant in Spain and hijacked a Kuwaiti Airlines plane. These attacks killed eighteen American servicemen and two U.S. civilians. In 1985, the Party of God hijacked TWA flight 847, killed a U.S. Navy diver, and held many other American civilians hostage. Additionally, Hezbollah kidnapped and murdered several dozen other Americans during the 1980s.1The U.S. Government regarded these violent attacks against U.S. and Israeli civilians as inexcusable, and began to regard Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. By 1997, the United States decided to officially designate Hezbollah as a terrorist group.2 The U.S. justified this designation by claiming that Hezbollah's violent activities threatened American interests.Controversy over Hezbollah's Terrorist LabelIn spite of the United States' denunciation, Hezbollah began to act less like a terrorist organization and more like a political party and began nominating candidates for national elections. The following years witnessed a steady progression in Hezbollah's political strength. Many scholars argue that Hezbollah lost its radical religious agenda during the 1990s, including the desire to create an Islamic state.3 Hezbollah's goals became more pragmatic and began to stress social and political issues, rather than constantly demand the destruction of Israel. The Party built hospitals, schools, clinics, and libraries across southern Lebanon. The Party of God's political and social activities continued throughout the 1990s and gained the support of nearly all Shi'a Muslims, along with many Sunnis and Christians.Additionally, Hezbollah reduced violent activities after Israel withdrew from Lebanon in 2000. Even the Israelis note that Hezbollah engages in violence only after Israel escalates its activities along the border.4 Most of the fighting on the Lebanon/Israeli border follows a "tit-for-tat" sequence, rather than continuous violence. In addition, the Party of God has refrained from attacking the U.S. in any way since 1989. Hezbollah also publically stated that the Party no longer considers the U.S. a target for violence.5The Terrorist LabelHezbollah's apparent transformation from violent resistance to political participant challenges the label of terrorist organization. The word terrorism invokes connotations of bloodshed and intolerance, not political participation and social programs as in Hezbollah's case. Currently, only the U.S., Netherlands, Canada, and Israel label Hezbollah a terrorist organization.Yet, Hezbollah retains some associations that question the organization's complete separation from terrorist activates. The most dangerous of these associations is Hezbollah's cordial relationship with Iran. Iran remains a state sponsor of terrorism and a vehement enemy of the United States. The Iranian Government orchestrated most of Hezbollah's kidnappings during the 1980s and may have orchestrated the Beirut bombings.6 Iran donates $60-100 million a year to Hezbollah and the Party of God occasionally uses this money to train terrorists in Sri Lanka and Colombia. Hezbollah's close relationship with Tehran seriously questions the Party's total abandonment of terrorism.Second, Hezbollah's practice of using human shields and kidnapping soldiers in its resistance against Israel remains problematic. Bruce Hoffman notes that terrorists often violate the rules of war, including taking civilian hostages, torturing captured soldiers, attacking embassies, and using civilians as shields.7 Hezbollah bombed embassies in the 1980s and 1990s, kidnapped, tortured, and killed many Israeli hostages, and constantly use civilians as human shields. During the 2006 War, Hezbollah frequently used residential areas as a base for its rocket attacks, hoping that Israeli Forces would hesitate to respond for fear of civilian casualties. Nevertheless, Israeli did attack the positions and many innocent Lebanese lives were lost.8 Hezbollah's violation of the rules of war and use of human shields indicates that it retains some terrorist elements.Third, Hezbollah refuses to disarm and occasionally uses violence to fulfill its political objectives in Lebanon. In 2008, the Lebanese Government demand that the Party disarm. Instead of complying, the Party of God violently seized control of southern Beirut and portions of Druze territory. Additionally, Hezbollah forced the government to reorganize the cabinet and give the Party of God veto power over parliamentary decisions. Through violence, Hezbollah gained much of the political power it now possesses.9Finally, Hezbollah continues to maintain a security wing known as Hezbollah International. Its former leader, Imad Mugniyah, was killed in Syria in 2008, but Hezbollah International continues to operate. This branch of Hezbollah remains extremely secretive, and Party leaders deny its existence. Over the years, however, the U.S. has pieced enough evidence to expose the terrorist practices of Hezbollah International. For example, in 1995, Singapore security forces foiled a Hezbollah International plot to attack Israeli and American vessels. Similarly, in 2001, Mexican authorities arrested a Hezbollah cell reportedly on its way to carry out attacks against Mexican officials. Likewise, in 2001, Canadian operatives reported that Hezbollah was attempting to sneak into the U.S. via the Canadian-U.S. border. Finally, Hezbollah's international branch continues to maintain relations with other known terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda, Iraqi militants, Hamas, and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia.10 These practices indicate Hezbollah's continued status as a terrorist organization.ConclusionHezbollah continues to transform socially and politically, but it retains some terrorist characteristics. Contemporary Hezbollah is very different from its radical origins in the 1980s. Nonetheless, the Party of God's association with Iran, violation of the rules of war, use of violence for political objectives, and its international branch justifies the United States' terrorist label.1. Jeremy M. Sharp, "Lebanon: The Israel-Hamas-Hezbollah Conflict," CRS Report for Congress (August 14, 2006).2. Combating Terrorism," The Official Report of the Cabinet-level Task Force Chaired by Vice-President George Bush (New Jersey: DIANE Publishing Co., 1987).3. Cliff Staten, "From Terrorism to Legitimacy: Political Opportunity Structures and the Case of Hezbollah," Online Journal of Peace and Conflict Resolution 8, no. 1 (2008): 32-494. Judith Harik, Hezbollah: The Changing Face of Terrorism (London: I.B. Tauris, 2004), 167-168.5. Rosemary Hollis and Nadim Shehadi, Lebanon on Hold (London: Chatham House, 1996).6. Jaber, 97-143.7. Bruce Hoffman, Inside Terrorism (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006), 26.8. "Hezbollah's Human Shields," The Washington Times, July 30, 2006, accessed April 22, 2011, http://www.washi ngtontimes.com/news/2006/jul/30/20060730-093558-9976r/.9. Bilal Y. Saab, "Rethinking Hezbollah's Disarmament," Middle East Policy 15, no. 3 (2008): 94-9810. Jeremy Goldberg, "In the Party of God: Hezbollah Sets up Operations in South America and the United States," The New Yorker (October 2003): 21-29.
How many tribes are called the wandering tribes in israel?
over 9000
How many died in Israel attack on Osirak reactor?
10 Iraqi soldiers died, as well as a French adviser (the reactor was French built.
What did US soldiers call Nazis?
I know of many that called them krauts.
Which religion owns Israel?
Israel is 75% Jewish. God gave Israel (formerly called Canaan) to the Jews in Genesis ch.28 and many other Biblical passages.
How many soldiers are in the air-force?
Soldiers in the USAF are called "Airmen". See US Air Force for a current strength number.
