Daily Times: Razi Azmi.
Netanyahu went to war against Hamas thinking he would destroy this ‘terrorist’ organisation once and for all and earn the gratitude of the Jewish people. He has achieved the opposite
Now, the second Gaza war is over. Who won? Who lost? The biggest losers, no doubt, were the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Mahmood Abbas, the president of a Palestinian entity without borders, sovereignty or international recognition. Nearly two decades after the Oslo Accords, the Palestinian president is still no more than a glorified mayor of a large city. He has little to show his people besides a bloated bureaucracy and the glittering paraphernalia of a government without a state. On his territory, Israeli troops roam free, Israeli military police control checkpoints, Shin Bet hunts down and arrests suspects, and Jewish settlers seize the best lands and humiliate the Palestinian people on a daily basis.