So who wins? Let's see. Israel set two goals - destroy Hamas, rescue the hostages. Hamas set two goals - survive the Israeli attack and hang onto the hostages for negotiating leverage. Getting the hostages back in exchange for 1000's of terrorist to resupply Hamas and giving Gaza back to Hamas so it can rebuild its war machine isn't the same as rescuing the hostages. So the score is: Hamas 2, Israel 0.
So who wins? Let's see.
ReplyDeleteIsrael set two goals - destroy Hamas, rescue the hostages.
Hamas set two goals - survive the Israeli attack and hang onto the hostages for negotiating leverage.
Getting the hostages back in exchange for 1000's of terrorist to resupply Hamas and giving Gaza back to Hamas so it can rebuild its war machine isn't the same as rescuing the hostages.
So the score is: Hamas 2, Israel 0.
There's no winners
DeleteIt is just a deeper mowing the lawn exercise, a taste of things to come.