[news] All Quiet on the Gaza Front

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

By Uri Avnery - June 23, 2008

AND SUDDENLY: quiet. No Qassams. No mortar shells. The tanks are not rolling. The aircraft are not bombing...And nobody says: Thank God, the killing has stopped!...WHY? WHAT causes this almost unanimous reaction of disappointment? Why is there a general feeling of humiliation, almost of defeat?...The aim of Olmert's war was to topple the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip and to destroy the organization itself. This has not been attained. On the contrary, according to all reports, Hamas is stronger than ever, and its hold on the Strip is solid. Even in Israel that is not questioned.  


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