This will be their peal harbor, both in that the reprisal will be swift and strong and that eventually it will come out that they mostly knew it was coming but let it happen anyway. It’s exactly what the current government wanted and needed. My guess I was an underestimate of the effectiveness of attack, in the sense that the ruling party was looking to provoke and draw some sort of minor attack but didn’t expect one to occur at this scale. There are serious questions about how the Netanyahu government did not see this attack coming. It was either a spectacular intelligence failure or a security failure or both, and it strikes at the heart of the Netanyahu government’s promise to keep the country safe. At the same time, the attack is making Israelis rally together. The hundreds of thousands of Israelis who have been protesting Netanyahu’s strengthening hold on the government have said they would come together in this dangerous moment.