Here's an interesting article on the history of Israeli military conflicts, and why they lost (or at least didn't win, making another inevitable soon) this one.

I'm too busy to post much on this right now, but this leads to a much bigger theme. One of the damaging things that the UN has done over the decades is to short-circuit many conflicts, causing them to actually go on unabated for years, albeit at a lower level with flareups, because its emphasis and urgency is always on band-aid ceasefires and halting fighting, rather than achieving true peace or justice.