Deciphering the Ceasefire: Israeli Press Declares Victory for Hamas

[sysop]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sought to claim Wednesday's ceasefire deal as a personal success. But not many seem to agree. Influential commentators in Israel believe that Hamas came out ahead -- and that the Islamist group has now been elevated to the status of negotiating partner.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...-a-868728.html

[leonaks]

The recent conflict with the Hamas could have been easily

prevented.

Destroying and flooding the weapon smuggling tunnels on the

border between Egypt and Gaza would have prevented

the recent conflict.

I am of the opinion that placing a twelve Gun battery

of American Vintage WWII 415 mm with 1500 kg projectiles

next to the Gaza border would have been sufficient

completely annihilate and flood those tunnels.

These Big Guns are mounted on the Iowa Class Battleships

but are also available as surplus guns from the American

surplus weapons stock piles.

The above suggestion can be a very economical

cost effective way for Israel to subdue the Hamas.

[leonaks]

Mounting of 415mm Big Guns on Northern Mount Miron

-Manara (above Kiryat Shemona) and Mount Hermon will provide

coverage to the Beirut suburbs in the North.

To the East coverage will extend to the Western outskirts

of Damascus all the way to Bashir al Assad's Summer Palace.

This artillery coverage will be immediately available without

putting aircraft in harms way and keeping them in reserve

for higher priority missions.

All of the above can be very economically accomplished.

[KhanZubair]

Relative to Israel Cairo should feel happy as it seems more of its victory. Simialrly current ceasefire by Israel and to abstain from the planned ground offensive, to me, makes the prospect of an Israeli strike on Iran more distant; which may be some compensation for Tehran losing the spotlight to Cairo. Notably absent in whole picture are the Saudis and Gulf states, who must be wary of any Hamas success given that they are already engaged in a proxy war in Syria with Hamas’s main backer, Iran. Egypt’s rise will also ruffle Saudi feathers, as it is these two countries that have traditionally vied for dominance in the Arab world. One person who must be cursing the ceasefire is Bashar Al-Assad, who will have welcomed the Israeli attack for having distracted the world from his own daily massacres of the Syrian people. With that conflict ended, the focus will again be on Syria, where the survival of the regime seems unlikely. His fall will signal the final end of the Middle East that Israel knew and loved, and it seems that no one in Tel Aviv understands just how deeply its neighbourhood has changed. Still if press and its people want to enjoy the ceasefire as victory is up to them. Fcatually ground realities have totally been changed.

[Inglenda2]

To believe anything Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says is rather stupid. On the other hand, the Hamas also have a history of deceit and crime.
Neither side can be trusted and both take no consideration for innocent victims caught up in this dispute. For either to claim victory, because blameless human-beings have been killed and maimed amongst civilians on the other side, is a sign of how low the intelligence of such fanatics is.
The civilised world, especially the European leaders, for example Frau Merkel, should be ashamed of any support given to either of these brutal adversaries.