While Israel is seeking and achieving tactical successes — such as the air assault on Hamas’s “metro” network of tunnels across northern Gaza, the toppling of high-rise blocs of Hamas significance, and strikes at weapons stores and rocket launchers — Hamas is achieving strategic success, attaining primacy in the Palestinian, Arab and even Israeli spheres.
Hamas has been the prime for years now. Abbas is an ineffectual leader who provides no inspiration to his followers. Hamas, on the other hand, is following in Arafat's tradition of stoking hatred and making followers rabid.
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