[epow]

"Hezbollah admitted in a statement Sunday that IDF troops had taken over the village, but called the move a defeat for Israel. "

Right. And when the Russians overran Berlin in 1945 I guess that was a defeat for Marshall Zhukov and a victory for Hitler. Arab logic at it's frozen-in-the-7th century state of development.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

"Hezbollah admitted in a statement Sunday that IDF troops had taken over the village, but called the move a defeat for Israel. "

This is a standard middle east propaganda technique for the past 4 to 5 millenia. Assyrian or Babylonian Kings would record (on clay tablets) victories "won" progressively closer to their capital city. The only way to interpret this is that their army was in full retreat and the reign of the king and subsequent tablets would soon come to an end. May it be so for Hezbollah.