Congratulations, Hamas.

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17. with all due respect exactly what has Israel 'lost' here, what has Hamas 'won'?

are you speaking of an internet PR war? Yes a few countries mostly in South America have for now broken ties however those in the real world do not amount to much, and while Netanyahu may be many things a 'hothead' is not one of them IMO, if fact you might be hard put to find a more cold calculating leader today, the the only flies in his ointment have been the hot heads in his own coalition

Bibi knows he has one and only one important dependable friend and that is the US and while twice now during this campaign the US has mildly condemned Israel's actions, that condemnation is quickly erased by actions. The first condemnation came last week and was followed by the 'sales' of $300 million worth of weapons from our stockpiles in Israel (I'm not sure if the check has cleared the bank as of yet) and today followed again quickly by Obama signing additional funding for Iron Dome, in fact his position with what IMO he sees as Israels one true friend is actually better now than it was 2 months ago before this whole episode began