No one should be deceived by the rather ostentatious displays of victory on the streets of Gaza, but Israel must be firm in its demands, and its leader should take a good hard look at their own behavior over the past 50 days.

What drives Hamas to attack, even though in doing so it suffers heavy losses, is its bi-dimensional perspective on existence - and in this case Hamas made gain on both the transient dimension of this world and the transcendent eternal world.