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© Getty Images As a ceasefire took hold after 11 days of rocket and bombing attacks, Israel and Hamas both lost little time in claiming victory. It is difficult to point to winners and losers amid such death, suffering and particularly in Gaza utter destruction, but some politicians and players clearly seem to have benefited. While the longer-term implications may play out differently, both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Benjamin (Bibi) NetanyahuMORE and militant Islamist Hamas clearly seem to have emerged stronger from the conflict than before. “Bibi is a winner, for now,” said David Schenker, former assistant secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs in the Trump administration and a Middle East expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. The war, he said in an interview, diverted attention from Netanyahu’s inability to form a new government after the country’s four inconclusive elections in two years. It also makes it difficult, if not im

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