Pure propaganda for Hizballah from the Associated Press, as Arab reporter Hamza Hendawi shows us how they’re planning to spin Hizballah’s ignoble defeat to make it seem like a glorious victory: For Hezbollah, survival may mean victory.

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah acknowledges that Israeli troops can sweep across south Lebanon. But if he and his militants can survive and keep fighting, he will cement his image as the unlikely new hero of Arab nationalism.

Israeli troops backed by tanks fought their way into southern Lebanon Saturday at the start of a ground assault to drive the Islamic guerrilla group away from the border and put Israeli cities beyond the reach of its rockets.

“I don’t want to raise expectations. I never said that the Israelis cannot reach any place in southern Lebanon,” says Nasrallah, a black-turbaned Shiite cleric whom Israel has tried repeatedly to kill.

“Our dogma and strategy is when the Israelis come, they must pay a high price. This is what we promise and this is what we will achieve, God willing.”