(Jerusalem Post) Yonah Jeremy Bob - On Thursday I saw the IDF in a Lebanese town taking apart the military infrastructure, including advanced Kornet missiles, rockets, and anti-aircraft guns, which Hizbullah embedded into nearly every civilian house. While Hizbullah has started to fire rockets at larger Israeli cities farther from the border, these attacks have paled in comparison to what was expected and the casualty count has been relatively low. Once it began a ground invasion of Lebanon, Israel expected to have thousands of dead civilians and a ravaged home front, including in Tel Aviv. During the 2006 Second Lebanon War, Israeli forces suffered from Hizbullah ambushes and there were concerns about the IDF's ability to take the fight to enemy territory on the ground. Yet, what I saw in southern Lebanon was complete IDF supremacy on the ground - and in record time. Reported IDF deaths in battle are in the low dozens - an astoundingly low number compared to the several hundred Hizbullah operatives killed and the myriad of weapons captured. The IDF has exorcised the Hizbullah demons that had plagued it.
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