Who Won the Battle of Gaza?

[Geee]

National Review:

There was no uncertainty about who won the battle for Constantinople in 1453 (the Ottoman Caliphate), or who lost the battle for Vienna in 1529 (the Ottoman Caliphate). In the Civil War, the North decisively defeated the South. In the Battle of the Bulge, the Allies prevailed, and the Axis never recovered.

These days, however, the fog of war shrouds not only conflicts that are underway, but even conflicts that have halted. And so there is now a debate about the outcome of what might be called November’s Battle of Gaza.

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On one hand, the Israel Defense Forces hit with extraordinary precision (and astonishingly limited civilian causalities, considering Hamas’s use of civilians as human shields) more than 1,600 targets during their eight-day campaign, demolishing Hamas’s command-and-control apparatus, killing more than 100 Hamas commanders, crippling Hamas’s rocket-launching capability, and destroying 26 weapons caches and more than 200 tunnels used for arms smuggling and terrorist attacks.

[Valin]

National Review:

There was no uncertainty about who won the battle for Constantinople in 1453 (the Ottoman Caliphate), or who lost the battle for Vienna in 1529 (the Ottoman Caliphate). In the Civil War, the North decisively defeated the South. In the Battle of the Bulge, the Allies prevailed, and the Axis never recovered.

These days, however, the fog of war shrouds not only conflicts that are underway, but even conflicts that have halted. And so there is now a debate about the outcome of what might be called November’s Battle of Gaza.

 

 

The problem is neither side in this 64+ year war is neither side is allowed to win. It is always stopped before victory. And this war will go on until one side or the other is allowed actually wins.

 

A simple (profound) point I recall VDH making years ago...Wars end when one side surrenders.

[SrWoodchuck]

H/T:TheoSpark