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September 8, 2014       Share:    

Source: http://www.aawsat.net/2014/09/article55336242

Hamas and the Delusion of Victory

(Asharq Al-Awsat-UK) Amir Taheri - As I watched Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh boasting on live television about his group's "historic victory," he punctured the global media's narrative, according to which Israel triggered the recent mini-war. "We started the war by striking Haifa with rockets," Haniyeh boasted. Haniyeh cannot admit defeat because that would expose him to the charge of reckless adventurism. He and his associates ignored the advice of Carl von Clausewitz, not to join a battle without having at least a 50% chance of winning it.

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