How To Win A War

Hizbollah's Reconstruction of Lebanon is Winning the Loyalty of Disaffected Shia:

Hizbollah has trumped both the UN army and the Lebanese government by pouring hundreds of millions of dollars - most of it almost certainly from Iran - into the wreckage of southern Lebanon and Beirut’s destroyed southern suburbs. Its massive new reconstruction effort - free of charge to all those Lebanese whose homes were destroyed or damaged in Israel’s ferocious five-week assault on the country - has won the loyalty of even the most disaffected members of the Shia community in Lebanon.

Via Aussie blogger Antony Loewenstein, whose important book My Israel Question has now become a best-seller.