I’m not sure whether I would call this a strategic defeat for Israel so much as a strategic victory for US imperialism and that wing of the Israeli ruling class which opposes the reckless policies of the the current government based on the messianic far right. As the RCIT and other commentators have noted, Hamas has not been defeated and has replenished its ranks, but it is more likely than not that a brutalized and war-weary Palestinian population will want to shy away from further confrontation with the US-Israel axis. Though the Palestinians and to a lesser extent the Lebanese have borne the brunt of the fighting, Israel’s ferocious genocidal attack has shocked the Arab and Iranian masses as much as it has the rest of the world and the yearning for peace and stability may also lead to their acquiescence to a settlement worked out by the US and Israel with the leaders of Saudi Arabia, the Gulf states, and the other conservative Arab regimes. I don’t see any evidence that the leaders of what is trumpeted as a “Syrian revolution” are eager for confrontation with Israel either.
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