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Our Enemy's Attrition
[National Review] Victor Davis Hanson - Hamas is high on victory in Gaza for now, but all it has accomplished is to further concentrate its nexus of terror into one small miserable - and quite vulnerable - locale in the midst of Jordan, Israel, and Egypt, while sacrificing the Palestinians' greatest advantage: deniability of culpability. It will be harder now for the tired good cop/bad cop excuses, "militant wing," etc. and all the other justifications for terror that the Palestinians use. Since Hamas bragged that it had routed the Palestinian Authority from Gaza, the next barrage of rocket attacks from there, rightly or wrongly, will liberate Israel in its response from the past worries of collateral damage. For all the talk of losing the Lebanon War, it is Iran and Syria, not Israel, that are stuck with billions in reconstruction costs for their battered Shiite pawns on the front lines.