Hamas’s attack on Israel has sown terror, as intended. It has also clarified the real issues facing the region.
on Israel has so far cost 250 Israelis, mostly civilians, their lives, left more than 1,000 wounded — and an uncertain number held hostage. As we write, Israel is responding with airstrikes on Gaza, which Hamas controls, and battling on the ground to oust hundreds of Hamas fighters from Israeli territory. Reports suggest a death toll above 230 and some 1,700 injured in Gaza. Israel is “at war,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared.
We now know that Israel’s own internal divisions, sparked by the extreme right-wing parties in Mr. Netanyahu’s governing coalition, and by his plan to overhaul the nation’s judiciary along lines favored by those radical forces, created an opportunity for the country’s enemies. Early signs are that Israel’s leading politicianswith Mr. Netanyahu to meet the emergency. We can only hope that is the beginning of a new coalition that can exclude the extremists who pushed the judicial overhaul.
Yet the future shape of Israel’s government is one of the issues that the new war leaves less clear, at least for now. Other questions include whether Saudi-Israeli diplomacy can survive this shock; how widely beyond Israel and Gaza the fighting might spread; the potential impact on the global economy if oil prices spike; and whether any hope of compromise between Israel and the Palestinians could somehow emerge from this unprecedented assault.
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