Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz Service and The Associated Press: Barak: Israel 'very close' to achieving goals in Gaza
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Title:the Bloomberg Effect: The winner is Hamas!
Name:Observer
City: State: Germany
From my point of view, Hamas will get out stronger from this war since the goals of this war as it was declared by Israel have not been achieved. Israel wanted to topple Hamas in gaza and stop firing the rockets from the strip, but the outcome is different:
1/Hamas is still standing in and outside the territories (especially with Politburo in Damascus represented even politically and diplomatically in a pan-Arab summit in Doha (a premiere!).
2/ The rockets are still fired from Gaza on the Israelis towns near the strip.

Morally Israel has lost this war with the dreadful number of unarmed civilians (half of the death are children, women and elderly people) aired on all the mass media during 3 weeks.