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Source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090116.EISRAEL16/TPStory/Comment
Hard Lesson for Hamas
[Globe and Mail-Canada] Editorial - Israel's military operations in Gaza serve to remind Hamas and other belligerents that Israel's political will and military prowess have not faltered. It is a tragedy for Gaza's impoverished and downtrodden population that it has taken so much death and destruction for Hamas to come to understand that a cease-fire is preferable to what has been experienced in Gaza in recent days. Hamas is defeated, or is in the process of being defeated. Its own leaders and fighters, and its own people, have died and been injured in numbers greatly disproportionate to the soldiers and people of Israel. It is time that Hamas, and the battered people they represent, understand not just the inevitability of defeat, but they must absorb the truth that harassment and provocation are not the way forward.