What Israelis Have Learned From Lebanon’s 2006 War

At the 5th anniversary of the Lebanon-Israel war of 2006, Israelis are publishing articles about the Lessons they have learned from it.

Lazar Berman in the Weekly Standard learned that “deterrence works:”

five years later our understanding of the war is different. Israel […] comes out looking much better than it did back then. […] It was the 2006 conflict that re-established Israeli deterrence. It is true that since the war Hezbollah has built up its arsenal beyond pre-war levels. But with more than 500 of its fighters dead, and Nasrallah living in a bunker, Hezbollah has never been as quiet as it has been since the 2006 war.

In the Wall Street Journal, the Israeli ambassador in the US has learned a scary lesson: (emphasis mine)

events in the Middle East may offer one last chance to liberate the Lebanese people. The Syrian regime might crumble and, with it, Iranian influence. If so, that moment should not be missed.

Ahh, nothing like being “liberated” by our Israeli enemies. I guess he didn’t learn the most important lesson of the 2006 war: When Israelis fight the Lebanese, the Lebanese will temporarily forget their differences and unite against the Israelis..