After months of destruction, displacement, and despair,
Hamas has agreed to a ceasefire. Its supporters call it a “strategic pause,”
but in truth, it reflects exhaustion — political, military, and moral. When
resistance drifts from purpose to performance, it loses the essence of struggle
and becomes an exercise in survival.
Hamas overestimated its resilience and underestimated the
duplicity of the Arab world. The self-proclaimed defenders of Palestine turned
spectators, mouthing empty slogans while doing business with Tel Aviv.
The Western champions of democracy and human rights proved,
once again, that these values have geographical limits. In this moral vacuum,
Hamas found itself fighting alone — a resistance without reinforcements.
The ceasefire may silence the guns, but it cannot disguise
the catastrophe. Gaza stands in ruins — its governance crippled, its population
scattered, its children scarred.
Israel may not have destroyed Hamas, but it has devastated
everything around it. The resistance lives, but the society it claimed to
protect lies in ashes.
Yet Israel’s so-called “victory” is equally hollow. Two
years of relentless war have brought neither peace nor security. Instead,
Israel finds itself morally isolated and diplomatically cornered. The global
sympathy it once commanded has turned to disgust. Even among its traditional
allies, questions are being asked: how long can “self-defense” justify
collective punishment?
To conclude, is this ceasefire a victory or a defeat?
For Hamas, it is survival without success; for Israel,
dominance without dignity. Both sides are trapped in a cycle of destruction
that yields no justice, only rubble and resentment.
The true defeat lies with the international community —
which has normalized occupation, tolerated brutality, and renamed surrender as
“peace.”
