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...already doing an impressive job cleaning it up. After weeks in hiding or living as refugees, the Party of God has taken charge of the reconstruction of Lebanon with enough speed and organization to make any government envious. Almost as soon as the cease-fire went into effect on Monday, Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah went on television to promise that all Lebanese whose homes were damaged or destroyed would receive at least $10,000 for a year's worth of rent, and during that time Hizballah would repair or rebuild all their homes. With Hizballah officials estimating that the Israelis...
...During a Monday session of the Knesset, Olmert was heckled by legislators as he admitted "deficiencies" in the way the war was handled. The opposition leader, Benjamin Netanyahu of the right-wing Likud party, and the likeliest challenger to Olmert's coalition cabinet, then went on to list what he described as the government's multiple "failures" in readying for war, protecting israelis from Hizballah bombardments and carrying out an indecisive campaign. In a rare show of unity, Likud right-wingers and Labor legislators joined to call for a high-level inquiry into all that went wrong...
...With the commencement of a tenuous ceasefire on Monday morning, the residents began trickling back to the village, looking with astonishment at the destruction that lay before them - but also with pride at what their fellow villagers had achieved. "There is much destruction," admits Jamil Jamil, 75. "For 10 days, the Israelis tried to get in but they couldn't. They failed and only reached the outskirts. Hizballah is very tough. Those men have their dignity...
When wars end inconclusively, victory is always in the eye of the beholder. So it should come as no surprise that since the Lebanon cease-fire went into effect Monday morning, everyone from Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert and President Bush to Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah and the leaders of Syria and Iran have been broadcasting competing claims of victory. Weighing those claims, however, requires measuring the war's outcome against the initial objectives defined by the different sides, and comparing their positions after a month of fighting to what they were before Hizballah seized two Israeli soldiers on July...
...final bell, a final verdict may be premature. Both sides will want to inflict maximum pain in the coming hours, and fighting on the ground will escalate - Israel lost a further seven soldiers Saturday, and fierce fighting in the coming hours portends more casualties on both sides. Come Monday morning, the situation on the ground will find the fighters in a clinch, and very likely trading punches even after the bell - punches whose consequences are always unpredictable...