Israel has failed to defeat the Hezbollah. It caused the massive destruction of Lebanon with untold death, injury, dislocation, misery and sufferings of mostly civilians.

But the best-equipped military force in the Middle East has failed in its mission to finish off the Hezbollah. Instead, Israel has succeeded in creating a new Arab hero.

The Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is now the “Che Guervarra with a turban,” in reference to the Latin American revolutionary whose face is in millions of posters, shirts, buttons, etc. around the world.

Walden Bello, who is now in Lebanon as part of a civil society-parliamentarian mission, reports that Lebanese see him as another rising Gamal Abdel Nasser. He who nationalized the Suez Canal and championed Arab nationalism.