Dreadnought

Garry,
Im not sure which view you look at it in but Israel hasnt lost. For these reasons..

1) The gained a 19 mile buffer zone on their border with Lebannon.
2) The managed to destroy a large part of Hezbollah arms cache and quite a few supporters.
3) With others supporting Hezbollah (Iran & Syria) namely they have opened many peoples eyes as to who funds these terror regimes and the laws in which they wage conflict. Namely none they are terrorists pure and simple.

*Now the French which worded the cease fire order will have to support the U.N. with troops instead of words this time. So thats a win for coalition forces..They have to put their troops where their mouth is finally.

*Notice the U.S. opposed stopping Israel. They did so for a reason. To send Iran and Syria a message that supporting state within state terrorism will not continue and you can spend your money and arms supporting Hezbollah but it will only get destroyed and theirs not one thing you can do about it.

*France stepped in because of their own worries over their own muslims at home and that was exactly what the U.S. saw and went against them. Giving Israel more time to stick it to Hezbollah. Iran & Syria hated to watch this because their support for Hezbollah was being blown up on their very tv's while they watched.

*Israel has now forced Lebannons hand to disarm Hezbolla and the rest of the world is watching to see exactly what they will do as Israel will continue to take out Hezbollah while pulling back.

*Notice Iran, Hezbollah, Lebannon and Syria called for the cease fire to begin with.
I wouldnt wonder to tell you that Hezbollah got its asses handed to them and thats exactly why the above terrorist supportive nations called for it. Because if you notice it wasnt Israel that called for it. Israel took great pleasure in bombing Irans and Syria's money (missles arms and armor) all into millions of pieces and laughed as they did so.

* Notice also Iran and Syria called it a victory for Hezbollah. They have to. They wouldnt want their people to know how badly Hezbollah got creamed. This might start uprisings in their lands and god forbid democracy sprout from this. They cant have this their people must remain brainwashed drones to the religious radicals they call their governments. The false or doctore images on the news and the net support the fact that the propaganda machine was hard at work trying to bail out Hezbolla.

*Lebannon will now think twice before allowing Hezbollah to do anything on their soil after they foot the bill to "clean up" the rubble and the dead.

*Hezbollah now has U.N. forces between them and Israel so the Islamic nations propaganda machine will not work when you have actual witnesses as to who started what and where it came from and who is operating in south Lebannon.

So in all Hezbollah has lost not Israel. Israel did nothing but gain in this conflict. In short its Hezbollah, Iran and Syria that has lost and not only just "face"