No Victory For Israel in Gaza

Ruvik Rosenthal in Haaretz: The Israeli occupation has failed to achieve its war goals, losing both the war and global public support. Despite destroying land and killing tens of thousands, the occupation is still losing. #Israel #Gazaceasefire #Trump

He write in a column the Israeli daily newspaper that none of the war’s goals were achieved. Hamas was not “destroyed”, but its ranks were replenished, the residents of Gaza went nowhere. There is no security for the Israeli residents of the envelope (areas sorrounding Gaza) who have not yet returned to their destroyed homes, and dozens of kidnapped soldiers have not yet returned from captivity.

He added we lost years of the world’s sympathy for us, the country’s economy entered at least a decade of stagnation, the army was eroded, and the circles of physical and psychological rehabilitation expanded and reached every home in Israel.

Rosenthal continued there is no image of victory. There are no “fruits” of victory. But if we cannot enjoy the fruits of victory, perhaps this is the time to enjoy the fruits of loss. The fruits of loss are the fruits of awareness, the fruits of the difficult realization that war is not a possible way of life for a people who want to live. The fruits of loss are the transition from the bloody battlefield and back to the family of peoples, to international agreements, to the Abraham Accords.