 There is no love lost between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah. The undoubted victor, Nasrallah, defiantly looks Olmert in the eye. The Lebanese Shia Muslim resistance fighter has stood his ground against Israeli brutality and has won a decisive moral victory. Nasrallah has emerged as the hero of the hour. Olmert, on the other hand, is shame-faced after the humiliating Israeli inability to defeat Hizbullah. The myth of Israeli invincibility is shattered and Olmert is contorted into a grumpy grimace. His nose is grotesquely swollen like a clown's. parent page (17 - 23 August 2006, issue #808) |