"... We Tried to Get at Nasrallah..."

In a weekend interview with Channel Two, former IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz confirmed that Israel had attempted to kill Hizbullah chief terrorist Hassan Nasrallah. "We tried to get to him, but couldn't find him. I personally cannot accept that he is still free to shuttle between his bunker and his tunnels. There's no question that we would have had a great feeling if he had not survived the war, but there is no person who cannot be replaced," Halutz said.

Halutz also said that he saw "his" war in Lebanon as more successful than Operation Cast Lead. "I don't want to judge the effectiveness of Operation Cast Lead, but the fact that the rockets from Gaza continued to fall the very next day – as opposed to what happened in Lebanon – casts a question mark on whether we should have stopped the war at the point we did. Not one rocket has been fired at Israel by Hizbullah since the end of the Lebanon war," he said.