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© Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.Hamas cries victory; truce with Israel holds
By IBRAHIM BARZAK GAZA CITY©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Thomas Haynes
Hamas has got to be the most delusional group of people on the face of the planet.
Serrano
"The option of invading Gaza after this victory is gone"
Dream on.
nandakandamanda
Typical. Shout victory and parade your undetected weaponry. Preaching to the choir.
Cocking a snook in public like this, Hamas has already sown the seeds of the next round. "Bring it on!" they are shouting, even if they cannot hear their own voice. To be continued.
bass4funk
Crazy!!! These militants are so far off! But you have to understand, for Hamas, they see it as a clear and desisive victory for them because they were able to hold their own and with the help of the US and Egypt, they helped in stopping any ground invasion from the Israelis, so in their warped minds, they see it and sell it to the Palestinians as a clear victory, as dumb as it sounds. They feel vindicated and reinvigorated.
SuperLib
So what was the purpose of escalating the attacks? Just wanted to have some fun and get some of their people killed?
Steric Hindrance
Israel clearly lost the public-opinion war. Despite their best efforts (megaphonies, government reps flooding all the major news channels, blowing up media stations,...) the world's public opinion on Israel took another nosedive from its already very low level. Despite Israel's great efforts at deceiving the public, most people understand what is going, forcing Israel to stop their aggression. I hope Israel learned its lesson and will no longer break the ceasefire agreement.
YuriOtani
Steric Hamas had been firing on Israel for many months, years before they responded. Now Israel needs to hold the ceasefire. The security area needs to be within their country and not the Gaza strip.
HonestDictator
@superlib part of the problem was that more militant groups inside Palistine (notice another terrorist group popped up called "Islamic Jihad" in previous articles about the cease-fire) are doing their own thing besides Hamas' ignorant "leadership" showing that Hamas has about as much power of taking care of the palistinian people and controlling other upstarts in their region as a fish in a fishery.
HonestDictator
Small dogs bark loudest?