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Can force fell Hizbullah ? - -

By Howard La Franchi

from the July 21, 2006 edition

RUBBLE: Journalists pick through debris of damaged buildings in southern Beirut, hit Thursday during Israeli air raids. Israel says it intends its strikes to incapacitate the militant Hizbullah.
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Can force fell Hizbullah?

Sheer might may curb Hizbullah's ability to strike, but it won't eradicate the militant group, analysts say.

By Howard LaFranchi | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

WASHINGTON � As Israel continues to strike inside Lebanon in a bid to rout Hizbullah, the radical Islamist group is using two weapons to wage war: rockets and, more effective, TV images of civilian destruction inflicted by Israeli bombs.

The latter "weapon," broadcast over the Hizbullah-run TV station Al Manar to pump up Arab sympathies, may in the end be more powerful than Israel's military punch - a counterpunch to Israel's assertion it can crush Hizbullah through use of force.