LONDON, U.K.—Hamas did not need a ceasefire. It had already demonstrated that it could not be eradicated by Israel. It had achieved its primary goal of wrecking the anti-Iran alliance that was brewing between Israel and the major Arab Gulf states. And it doesn’t care about how many Palestinians get killed; they are all ‘martyrs’ for the cause.

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