If winner, why hide, Olmert asks Nasrallah

However, the Hizbollah leader still takes great precautions concerning his personal safety, and has not appeared in public since the outbreak of the war on July 12. The war was widely seen in Israel as a failure. Still, Olmert reiterated that Israel achieved what it had wanted8212;force the Lebanese army to deploy along the Israel-Lebanon border. Such a deployment is part of the UN-brokered cease-fire deal.