9 Years of Failure in Gaza

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"Israel" not only suffers the pain of Gaza defeat, but it details years of successive failures in dealing with the besieged strip.

Haaretz "Israeli" daily entitled its opinion, "Nine years of failure in Gaza".
As "Israel's" aggression seems to be over; when and where it started is a different question.

The daily recalled "the very last salvo of mid-range rockets fired by Hamas from Gaza - minutes before the 8 AM ceasefire - hit south of "Jerusalem", around Bethlehem and Gush Etzion."

"Hours of work and thousands of words have gone up the spout as after a few hours of calm rockets were launched again, and fighters emerged from yet another undiscovered tunnel."

It further said: "Even if the operation is indeed over, for now, where and when did this start?"
"Netanyahu didn't want this war; he feared an operation spiraling out of his control and its ultimate costs. He hesitated at every stage, until events and public pressure dragged him in."

The daily also highlighted : "With all the tunnels the intelligence was aware of and those subsequently discovered destroyed, the objective has been achieved."

"Is this success? Only if you look at what has happened over the last four weeks from a very limited perspective; but probably not, if you take into consideration more than 1,700 killed Palestinians - at least half of them civilians - and over 8,000 wounded, as well as 67 deaths on the "Israeli" side, the massive damage wreaked in the Gaza Strip and the cost to "Israel's" economy, its diplomatic standing and image in the world."

"There is a lot of loose and empty talk of "Israel" winning this battle. It's ridiculous because the victory of a nation-state, with one of the most powerful armies in the world and a stable economy, over a terror organization based on a beleaguered sliver of land is a foregone conclusion. "

Source: Haaretz, Edited by website team