Nassrallah’s Victory?

The “Self hating Israeli left” sees further proof in the prisoners’ exchange that it was Nassrallah who won Last July’s war

The Israeli left-wing daily, Haaretz, wrote an article in which it argued that the asymmetry of the exchange proves that Nassrallah still has the upper hand and that the war, a total waste, didn’t change anything:

the prisoner exchange deal in the works between Israel and Hezbollah suggests that Nasrallah won the Second Lebanon War. This despite the fact that in the balance of losses — in terms of lives, destruction suffered, political and security capital — he lost. If Israel releases Samir Kuntar for Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, without receiving Ron Arad or at least information about his whereabouts, the war was pointless and its cost was for naught. This does not necessarily mean that a decision to carry out such a deal would be mistaken, but we should not evade the meaning of the decision. The whole affair deserves to be seriously addressed in the report of the Winograd Committee.