Hizballah: We Would Have Surrendered if the War Lasted 10 More Days

This by way of Little Green Footballs and JPost.com:

"The cease-fire acted as a life jacket for the organization [at the end of the Second Lebanon War]," a Hizbullah officer said in an interview aired by Channel 10 on Tuesday.

In the interview, the unnamed officer said Hizbullah gunmen would have surrendered if the fighting last summer had continued for another 10 days.

His statement sharply contrasted with those made by Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah on several occasions since the month long war.

At the end of the war, Nasrallah said his organization had gained a "divine victory."

The officer shown on Channel 10 said the organization's gunmen had been running low on food and water and facing rapidly diminishing arms supplies.

The officer also said that many Hizbullah commanders were ordered to hide before the war started, and that the gunmen who remained were forced to fire Katyusha rockets from inside urban populations because of the IDF's efficiency in destroying launchers minutes after a launch had been detected.

He said that when the gunmen relocated to cities and villages, they knew innocent civilians would be hurt as a consequence.

The quick arrival of IAF jets at rocket-launch sites, sometimes only four to five minutes after a Katyusha was fired, "surprised" Hizbullah, the officer said.

Lawhawk has always claimed, and I completely concur, that the Israeli government mishandled the war, and that they never went all out. This also shows the doves out there that going at a war half hearted and leaving a job half done is counter productive. Lets take this interview at face value and assume that it is true, Hizbullah would have surrendered after 10 more days. Now, instead of pressing the offensive when they could have and eventually obtaining victory, the peacenicks in Washington and the U.N. have created a situation where Hizbullah is now rearmed (thank you Syria and Iran), rested, better schooled, better trained, battle hardened, and given more time to study Israeli tactics and world reaction. Add in the ineffective job of the U.N. peacekeepers, and you have a more serious situation and the potential for a second, more deadly war.

Will the world take heed of this? Will this basically go unreported everywhere except on here and LGF and similar sites? If Israel is forced into another war against Hizbullah, will the world restrain them and force a false resolution before the job is complete? Will everyone learn their lessons from this? Inquiring minds want to know.