Both Operation Cast Lead and the Second Lebanon War were opposed by the far-left.
The Kadima-led leftist government was unable to secure European support for Israel in the Second Lebanon War.
That war, now known as the Second Lebanon War, was actually a two-front war that began in Gaza.
Since the Second Lebanon War, a number of Israeli Arabs have been arrested and convicted of spying for Hizbullah.
Hizbullah's popularity among Israeli Arabs has grown immensely since the Second Lebanon War.
The same year he allowed Iran to use Turkish territory to transfer weaponry to Hezbollah during the Second Lebanon War.
He described how he had been compelled to enter the electoral arena after fighting in the Second Lebanon War, in 2006.
It was only after the Second Lebanon War in 2006 that steps were taken to defend against short and medium-range rockets.
The second cause of the administration's hostility toward Israel is the Olmert government's irresolute handling of the Second Lebanon War last year.
The Israel defense forces are currently trying to assess the lessons learned from those serious problems during what's been called the second Lebanon war.
Because the Left was in the government in 2002, 2006 and 2009, the media supported Defensive Shield, the Second Lebanon War and Operation Cast Lead.
Their second goal - and perhaps Olmert's primary objective - was to erase the public's memory of Israel's strategic failure in the Second Lebanon War.
In the aftermath of 2006's Second Lebanon War, the IDF's senior officer corps was subjected to well-deserved public attack for its poor performance during the war.
Ten years after the withdrawal and four years after the Second Lebanon War we again hear talk about an inevitable new round of war in the summer.
During the Second Lebanon War, the government showed that it could not be trusted with the defense of the country and with the proper deployment of IDF soldiers.
Later in 2006, Mughniyeh returned to Lebanon to plan the kidnapping of IDF soldiers that was carried out on July 12, 2006, and precipitated that summer's Second Lebanon War.
So too, as far as the media are concerned, Hizbullah's electoral and extra-electoral takeover of the Lebanese government and its decision to initiate the Second Lebanon War were all wholly unconnected to the IDF's withdrawal.
The past decade's major policies: the withdrawal from Gaza, the construction of the security fence, the acceptance of the road map peace plan, the Annapolis Conference, Operation Defensive Shield, the Second Lebanon War and Operation Cast Lead all shared one central feature.
Since the Second Lebanon War last summer, the US has pushed Israel to take no action against Iran's proxy Hamas on the one hand, while pushing Israel to empower Fatah, which has its own strong ties to Iran and to Hamas, on the other.
Just as economic prosperity allowed Israel to absorb the cost of the Second Lebanon War with barely a hiccup, so Israel's continued economic growth will play a key role in protecting it from the economically induced political upheavals likely to ensue throughout much of the Arab world and Europe.
For Israel, the best case scenario in the age of a nuclear-armed mullocracy would involve continuous war with Iranian proxies - sort of expanded versions of the Second Lebanon War and Operation Cast Lead - in which it has little option for victory because the terror armies would fight under Iran's nuclear umbrella.
It and the film made from it (which was shortlisted for an Oscar this year) struck a deep chord with Israelis reeling from the fiasco of their second war against Lebanon's Hizbullah militia in 2006.
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