Israel, loser in war on Gaza

Qudsna, Ahmad Kazemzadeh:

The Zionist regime has already been a loser in both diplomatic and military fields in its war on Gaza.

In terms of military affairs, the Zionist regime has offered no initiative in the past few days except for using its aerial edge of power. The regime however has usually hit civilian and residential areas instead of the launching pads of the Palestinian resistance groups in Gaza.

The military failure has also brought a moral failure for the regime that claims to be seeking to target the military commanders of Hamas and other resistance groups. Any audience would conclude that the regime actually seeks to target civilians and kill as many numbers of Palestinians.

On the Palestinian side however the Palestinian resistance groups are apparently following the model of the Lebanese Hezbollah in the 2006 33-day war against Israel by striving to get a deterrence power through enhancing the range and power of their rockets. Several rockets have already hit areas close to the Dimona nuclear facilities, turning the advantageous site into a source of threat for the regime.

The rocket firing campaign also proved the US-granted missile defense systems, including the Iron Dome system are not effective as touted, pushing a state of fear among the millions of Zionist immigrants, sending them fleeing for shelter. The negative impact of the state of fear is yet to emerge in the form of capital flight and reverse immigration.

In the diplomatic stage, the regime could not gain its major goal of pushing the newly-announced Palestinian consensus government to failure. Fatah and the Palestinian Authority have already stood by Gaza unlike their position in the 22-day war in 2008.

The regime's campaign to divert the regional and international public opinion from its atrocities by fomenting regional crises however the trend of developments show that the situation has carried backlashes for the regime, putting it in the center of world public fury.