Wars unite nations. The shock and horror of the Hamas attacks on Israel have brought a deeply divided country together. It is possible that Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, may now form a national unity government.Israeli unity will last a while because this crisis is very far from over. The fate of the hostages inside Gaza, including children and old people, will continue to torment Israel. The government also faces the risk of new fronts opening in the occupied West Bank or on the border with Lebanon. But, fairly soon, Israel will be plunged into a divisive political argument about what went wrong. Two failures will have to be addressed. The first is an intelligence and security failure. The second is strategic.
戰爭使國家團結。哈馬斯(Hamas)襲擊以色列引起的震驚和恐懼使一個嚴重分裂的國家團結了起來。以色列總理本雅明?內塔尼亞胡(Benjamin Netanyahu)現在有可能組建起一個民族團結的政府。