Israel admits to failures by Winograd report

Lebanese Hezbollah's Propagation Official, reffering to an Israeli committee report on that country's 2006 attack against Lebanon, called Winograd report, said on Wednesday the report proved the Zionist regime's defeat in confrontation with Resistance.

Hossein Rehal reffering to the report prepared by a follow up committee on war, led by Elyahu Winograd, published on Wednesday, said, "This report precisely proved that the Zionist regime's armed forces failed in achieving all their defined objectives and were humiliated in their confrontation with the Lebanese Resistance forces."

Rehal said, "Lebanon and its popular Resistance forces suffered great losses during the course of the Israeli imposed, uneven, 33 day war, but emerged victorious in the end."

A Lebanese Parliament member from Hezbollah Fraction, Muhammad Heydar, too, reacting to the same report, said, "Publication of Winograd report was the Zionist regime's rare confession to defeat."

He added, "It is precisely stressed in the report that the Lebanese Resistance urged Israel to react to its devised strategies throughout that war, and to fight in accordance with their rules, rather than its own strategies."

Heydar said, "This report also showed that Resistance is the only option in confrontation with the endless aggressive policies of the usurper Zionist regime, and that is sufficient proof to convince both the Lebanese politicians and the Arab world leaders to recognize the effectiveness of resistance."

He predicted that the Zionist regime's Prime Minister Ehud Ulmert would face numerous difficulties in near future as "There was talk about his leaving of the office even before the publication of the Winograd Report."

The Zionist regime's 2006 Lebanon war was a missed opportunity and a grave failure for the regime, a key report said on Wednesday.

The long-awaited report by a government-appointed commission on imposed war against Lebanese Resistance listed a series of severe failings and shortcomings both on the part of the Zionist regime's government, and on the part of their army.

"Overall, we regard the second Lebanon war as a serious missed opportunity," commission head Eliyahu Winograd said.

Olmert, who had faced mounting calls to quit ahead of the report's release, said he was "satisfied" by Winograd's findings, according to an official in his fold.

In his report, Winograd said: "We found severe failings and flaws in the lack of strategic thinking and planning, in both the political and the military echelons."