I know they do, and some sources say it was the other way around. Knowing the little impact Lebanon has on the Western media and how big Israel's impact is (especially on the US media -lots of jewish guys in charge there) it's not strange that the "they came to Israel" version is more widely reported.


But like I said to Arathorn before: why would a relatively large group of Hezbollah fighters cross the (extremely well-guarded!) border with Israel, only to engage a patrol, kill most soldiers in it and capture two? Bearing in mind that the equipment and training of the Israeli patrol is vastly superior to what the Hezbollah guys have....and yet they were all killed but two of them. That indicates this group of Hezbollah warriors was big -at least 20-30 people.

I'm not saying it has to make absolute sense, cos some things just don't. But you don't just cross the Israeli border with a large group of armed men and kill an entire patrol. It makes no sense whatsoever. The Hezbollah guys aren't exactly defending the borders against possible strike points for Israeli terrorists.

What does make sense is Israel patrolling inside the Lebanese territory...because their border guard is crap, and because the patrol would be checking the area close to the border for possible transit/attack points of Hezbollah.

Now, I'm not exactly a military man, but i think it's fair to say it's more likely the Israelis were in Lebanon than the other way around.