"I did know a few Israeli reporters who thought going to war was a mistake - not because they were pacifists or leftists, but because they were pragmatists who knew well the complex reality behind the received narrative of Bad Guys v. Good Guys." Hezbollah is a genocidal, anti-Semitic organization whose goal is to establish a totalitarian Islamic state and subvert any democracy in Lebanon. They're the bad guys, no matter what Israel's mistakes during the war or its domestic distribution of wealth.