{"id":1431,"date":"2006-08-08T09:17:28","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T09:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1431"},"modified":"2006-08-08T09:17:28","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T09:17:28","slug":"2006-8-8-hizbullahs-military-prowess-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1431","title":{"rendered":"Hizbullah&#8217;s military prowess"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Interesting story in the WaPo on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/08\/07\/AR2006080701453.html?referrer=email\">Israeli soldiers&#8217; perception of Hizbullah<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You really can&#8217;t underestimate the Hezbollah,&#8221; said Tyler, 20, a member of the army&#8217;s Nahal Brigade. &#8220;They are the masters of the field. They know the area better than us. They know where to hide and when to move. They always know where we are.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s shock-full of quotes like the one above that make Hizbullah soldiers sound like an army of Rambos. There&#8217;s a myth of invincibility being created that&#8217;s going to live way beyond this war and that probably gives an exaggerated view of what Hizbullah is capable of, which is really not that much &#8212; it&#8217;s just that the Israelis have not fought such a competent guerrilla group before.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Interesting story in the WaPo on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/08\/07\/AR2006080701453.html?referrer=email\">Israeli soldiers&#8217; perception of Hizbullah<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You really can&#8217;t underestimate the Hezbollah,&#8221; said Tyler, 20, a member of the army&#8217;s Nahal Brigade. &#8220;They are the masters of the field. They know the area better than us. They know where to hide and when to move. They always know where we are.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s shock-full of quotes like the one above that make Hizbullah soldiers sound like an army of Rambos. There&#8217;s a myth of invincibility being created that&#8217;s going to live way beyond this war and that probably gives an exaggerated view of what Hizbullah is capable of, which is really not that much &#8212; it&#8217;s just that the Israelis have not fought such a competent guerrilla group before.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[59,30,70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}