Hezbollah's goal

After provoking Israel to attack, and then sequestering themselves and their rockets among the women and children of Lebanon, Hezbollah assured that there would be civilian deaths; in continuing their attacks and escalating the war they guaranteed the death toll would mount. And it was inevitable that as people died the Lebanese population would begin to see Hezbollah as defenders; it was likewise predictable that images of destruction and reports of death would win general Arab support, world-wide sympathy, and the inevitable demands for a cease-fire.

I believe it has been Nasrallah's intent all along to reduce weak Lebanon to rubble while winning support, thus softening it up for Hezbollah's next move, to take control of the entire country — and after that the region.

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