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Israel has already lost the warReader comment on item: Lessons of the War in Gaza Submitted by Michael S (United States), Aug 22, 2014 at 16:09 The fact that HAMAS has withstood Israel, with heavy fighting, for a month, is an automatic victory for HAMAS. Things can only go downhill from here. In 1967, the entire Egyptian Air Force was destroyed in a day. One month into the war with an enclave some 4 miles wide and 24 mile long (the size of a SMALL township in the US), HAMAS is still lobbing rockets at Israelis and killing them: Small boy killed by Hamas mortar DEBKAfile August 22, 2014, 10:24 PM (IDT) "Mortar fire from the Gaza Strip killed a four-year old boy at an Eshkol District village Friday whilie he was running for shelter..The shell was fired from an UNRWA school n the Shejaiya district of Gaza City." -- http://www.debka.com/newsupdatepopup/9533/ So much for trying to keep the "moral high ground" -- only to sink in quicksand. I dare say, heads will roll in the knesset. Even 2006 was a glorious victory, compared to this. Corruption. Corruption. Incompetence. Submitting....
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