Was Israel's War With Hamas Last December A Victory?

Palestinian civilians and medics run to safety during an Israeli strike over a UN school in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip early on January 17, 2009. Photograph: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images

Israel's Gaza Vindication -- Washington Post

When it was launched last December, Israel's invasion of the Gaza Strip looked to most people in Washington to be risky, counterproductive and doomed to futility. Not only pundits like me but senior officials of the Bush administration predicted that the Israeli army would not succeed either in toppling Gaza's Hamas government or in eliminating its capacity to launch missiles at Israeli cities. Instead it would subject the Jewish state to another tidal wave of international opprobrium and risk its relations with West Bank Palestinians and Egypt.

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My Comment: These comments are always passed around a year or two after every war. It was said after the 1967 war, the Yon Kippur War, The Lebanon war in 1982 .... etc. ... etc. It will also now being said after the Gaza War.

There is no vindication here .... just a continuation of a conflict that has been going on for years .... and will probably resume (again) into another shooting war sooner rather than later.