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Snatching defeat

Israel is both the biggest winner and the biggest loser

1 February 2025

9:00 AM

1 February 2025

9:00 AM

The Gaza war that began on 7 October 2023 was suspended with a 42-day ceasefire on 19 January 2025. Hamas’s October surprise resulted in the worst loss of lives of Jews in one attack since the Holocaust, almost equalling in scale, adjusting for respective populations, the loss of American soldiers in the entire Vietnam war.

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