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...consumer high-tech industry, it's all about the reveal. Technologies become outdated so quickly that electronics companies need massive momentum for sales during products' first few months on the shelves - and for that reason, if the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas didn't already exist, someone would be sure to invent it. The biggest event of the year for gadget geeks, it's where early adopters go (or what they read about) to plan their wish lists for the upcoming year...
...little bit of a letdown,” Stone said. “There are swings in momentum and that was one of them...
...quickly spread across the region. During the revolt, which brought international attention to the Palestinian cause, the political party known as Hamas was created as a Palestinian extension of the popular Muslim Brotherhood Organization that had already swept through Egypt and much of the Arab world. Hamas gained momentum in the occupied region, especially in Gaza, by establishing educational and social programs for disenfranchised Palestinians, but drew international condemnation for its tactics of rebellion against Israel, including terror attacks and suicide bombings. Hamas continued to denounce Israel's presence in the region, demanding a Palestinian Islamic state in its place...
Israel says its military offensive in Gaza has dealt Hamas a heavy blow, but that's not how the leaders of the radical Palestinian group see it. Their view is based more on a kind of jujitsu that uses Israel's military momentum against its own political objectives than on any serious belief in rhetoric about the organization's "steadfast" fighters being able to "crush" the invaders...
...just that. A message sent by the Israeli chief of staff to his troops just before the ground offensive began captures the mood well. "Our enemies were mistaken when they believed that we were weak and would not fight back," it read. Israelis hope that optimism and sense of momentum lasts. But a kidnapping or two, or some serious engagements in Gaza's urban jungle, and the mood could change very quickly...