What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate

So Haaretz referenced a Thursday poll, ostensibly taken by the LBC, which claimed the following.

Some 96 percent of Shiites expressed support for the abduction of the Israeli soldiers, as did 73 percent of Sunnis, 54 percent of Christians and 40 percent of Druze. Most of the participants in the poll felt that Israel will not be able to defeat Hezbollah.

96%! And more than half of the Maronite Christian community!

How are we possibly going to fight that?

Well, Zvi Ba’rel suggests the following:

Israel might find itself caught in a situation similar to the one it has faced in the territories since it chose to give up its partner: a direct, long-term occupation.

That will help? How will that help? The Israelis tried that already. In Lebanon.

Insanity is trying the same thing again, and expecting a different result.