Robert Satloff
When President Trump meets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the sixth time this year on December 29, the two leaders should ask themselves a question they thought was already settled: Who won the Hamas-Israel war?
When he visited Jerusalem in October, Trump proclaimed Israel the victor: “You’ve won,” he told Israel’s parliament. But Hamas leaders called the war a failure for Israel and a “victory for resistance and steadfastness.” And three months into the ceasefire, the answer is not so simple. While the Palestinian people in Gaza suffered horrific losses, Hamas itself did not lose – at least, not yet.
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