In war, both the Israeli government and Hamas sought to claim advantage in repeated statements, and now that the ceasefire has gone into effect both are trying to spin the end of the war as a “victory” for their respective sides.
Hamas was overt in announcing the end of the war as a “victory,” claiming their retaliatory strikes, despite not killing that many people, led to the deal, and insisting that they are in a stronger position now, with their military leader and the Gaza Interior Ministry blown up, than they were a week ago.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, meanwhile, sought to trumpet the attacks having destroyed Hamas’ command centers, and cheered the US backing of the war as underscoring Israel’s ability to count on US cooperation.
Netanyahu had the added difficulty of trying to sell the peace deal, with early polls showing considerable Israeli consternation at the sudden outbreak of peace, and insists that his goal was to get life back to normal as quickly as possible. This is going to add to criticism, however, not only from hawks but from those asking what the point of the war was in the first place, and why Israel resisted earlier ceasefire efforts.
If one presume that Barack Hussein Obama is trying to get rid of Israel influence in us by giving more power helping sunny Muslims in the region, or wantingbto divide middle east between sunny muslims and others then it is wright by those whom are saying that, this is the Islamization of the region empowering those who are against democracy, I mean a social functioning democracy for the people not only a religious sect or fractions that might start terrorising the region in a long run, like those terrorist in Syria or Libya whom are supported by the tyrants in the regions.
Look: Neo fascism in Sweden or for that matter in USA given the same right as democrats or the republican have, but that doesn't mean that democracy is working or functioning for the people, is theater, a scenario played by those who are in business of rolling people, like Neo liberal fascism in Europe.
There are two social elements out there that doesn't have any place in people's democracy, or peoples politics., one religious and other is fascism. You can fool people for a time and say that this is democracy, yet you need to bare the consequences buy being papared for more wars and atorocities as we have witnesed in Gaza…, regimes as religious feudalism, or fascism have no place in democracy.., if such democracy is the peoples democracy led by people and for the peopl.,then it well work for people.
People in Gaza were not forced to chose HAMAS as their government.., due to israel aggresion, their nature in brutality toward palestinians for last 60 years., the palestinians were not given any other alternative but Hamas, so is the problem with westren foreign diplomacy, they think of their "interests" first so they create such momentum as we have witnesed in created wars by the west and fir the west.., a fasictic brutalism attacking humans in every dirction dividing them thinking it is the other parties fault, as Bush and his father did to Iraqi people or Bill Clinton and Madeline Albright, Tony Blair and other Europeans engaged in Balkan dividing nations a slavery in new made up countrues; therefore, they create divisins among nationals not considering the over due voice of people for a functioning democracy.
Israeli apartheid regime is consist of religious fundamentalism as Hamas is, unless there is a functioning democracy based on a politics and a economic justice system that based on a peoples governing people and for the people., then social matters will be solved in time.., otherwise you will see more wars and more growth of Neo nazist in Europe and elswhere pretending to be democrats.
Correction: Israel never was Israel, the west made it to Israel looking fir a brutal friend doing their dirty job. Western politics is alway been based on a double moral and double standard, that's not because of democracy, but rathe a non functioning democracy adopted by that 1%. Or if you will, vulture capitalism.