TEL AVIV: Israel-Lebanon war’s most significant result is a change to the balance of fear in the Middle East, and this is why Israel has been resisting the fact that its army got defeated by Hezbollah in the war.

But after months of denial, Israel admitted finally that Hezbollah won the war.

Speaking at a Tel Aviv news conference summing up the Israeli army’s investigation of its behavior during the war, Israeli chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz, who’s under fire because of the shortcomings of the war, conceded that the military made serious errors during the war.

However, he rejected calls to resign as a result.

Defense Minister Amir Peretz said the same.

Although Halutz claimed that Israel badly damaged Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and killed “hundreds of terrorists,” he admitted that the IOF, the Israeli Occupation Forces, weren’t “successful in reducing the short-range rocket fire on Israel’s north until the cease-fire.”