Hezbollah's new battle at home

Opinion - theage.com.au: "IF LOVE means never having to say you're sorry, that principle should apply with redoubled force when the emotion in question is hate. So when Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah publicly apologised for igniting the recent Lebanese conflict, his boasts of victory over Israel began to ring a tad hollow.

During an August 27 interview with Beirut's New TV, Nasrallah expressed regret about ordering the cross-border raid during which two Israeli soldiers were taken prisoner. 'We did not think that there was a 1 per cent chance that the capture would lead to a war of this scale and magnitude,' he conceded." More.