Wednesday, August 02, 2006

NYT: Israel fights to win 'battle of perception'

Gidi Grinstein, a former Israeli negotiator and director of the Reut Institute, a research group, calls it the "90-10 paradox." Israel can eliminate 90 percent of Hezbollah's fighting capacity, but Hezbollah can still declare victory and claim that it fought the mighty Israeli army to a draw.

"At the end of the war, they'll have a narrative, and so will we," Grinstein said. "It's all about perception."

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