Again, telling lies again and again won't make them true. Israel and the US were against any ceasefire till Israel deemed Hezbollah an extinguished threat.
In fact, Lebanon was begging the UN to stop Israel's assaults on Lebanon. But Israel refused until Hezbollah was removed from southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah will remain the most powerful force in Lebanon, because the rest of them are weak. But it is weaker and more vulnerable than anyone might want to admit.
Since the 2006 war, Hezbollah has become more aware of its limits and weakness. It is more careful, calculating, and prepared to gamble on the demographical changes that will eventually give it victory in the internal struggle for control of Lebanon.
For the time being, it is keeping the border with Israel quiet and prefers to play its winning card—their propaganda machine—that has given Hezbollah a victorious image time and again in the past. But that is all that is, an allusion for the gullible and the blind.
As time passes, the severity of the blow suffered by Lebanon and its people from the Second Lebanon war becomes clear. The war resulted in a political crisis in Lebanon that continues to threaten to deteriorate into civil war, this time between the Shia community and the country's other groups.
True, the war did not engender this crisis; its roots lie in deep, long-term problems that have been unfolding in Lebanon for some time. However, there is no doubt that the war intensified existing tensions, exposed wounds that had scabbed over only with great difficulty, and created new political and social resentments.
