[BESA Center for Strategic Studies-Bar-Ilan University] Stuart A. Cohen - In Israel's Gaza operation, it was the Israeli side that declared a unilateral cease-fire. The Hamas leadership did not have to make any formal concession in order to bring about a cessation of the IDF onslaught. Hence, it could always claim that the attack had in fact failed, provided enough Hamas leaders survived to tell that tale - which was indeed the case.
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