Another View of Hamas...

Headline:

Hamas is Losing and Everyone Knows it

"It’s pathetic, really, and must be extraordinarily humiliating.

The Middle Eastern habit of declaring victory after getting your ass kicked has a long pedigree. Egypt did it after losing the 1973 Yom Kippur War. North Korea built a hysterical propaganda museum in Cairo commemorating that make-believe victory, but at least that particular fantasy is based on something. The Egyptian army did well against Israel for the first couple of days even though it lost in the end.

Hezbollah declared victory in the 2006 war despite the fact that entire swaths of its infrastructure were obliterated, but Hezbollah did inflict some serious damage and triggered a refugee crisis. Hamas couldn’t possibly base a victory boast on anything now.

The Israelis are seriously considering a ground invasion since Hamas won’t stop firing, but they’ve already proved to the population of Gaza that Hamas, even with its all its longer-range missiles, is capable of inflicting no more damage on the Zionist Entity than a lone killer armed with only a steak knife."
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In the eyes of the AtheoLeft, Hamas is the perpetual victim regardless of how illegal their war crimes obviously are. The two cited in this skirmish are the attack on civilians launched by Hamas rockets (roughly 1,000 rockets are reported to have been launched out of Gaza against random civilians in Israel), and the second war crime is hiding behind civilians while waging war. But as was observed in yesterday's article, Hamas never loses, at least in the eyes of itself and its Leftist facilitators: Israel is to blame for retaliating and thereby aggravating the poor Gazans.