(Commentary) Abe Greenwald - Some critics claim that Israel can't destroy Hamas. You can't kill an ideology, they say. Israel has pulverized Hamas's underground rat-maze, dismantled or hobbled its battalions, killed thousands of its fighters, choked off its smuggling routes, and taken out its leaders, including Sinwar. Does this constitute Israeli victory? No, not yet. There's more fighting ahead. But it's what winning looks like. And it's how you destroy the enemy. It also means that Hamas's remnants might find themselves without the Iranian funds they'd have used to try to reconstitute the organization in the future. The mullahs can't be happy looking at the present state of Hamas (and increasingly of Hizbullah). Iran's return on its investment in proxy armies is vanishing fast. The list of senior Hamas members killed by Israel is growing longer by the day. The same applies to the senior ranks of Hizbullah. Do Hamas's supporters in the U.S. still think they're on the winning side against Israel?
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