A broad coalition of political forces, from Israel’s far right to the Zionist left, have differing motivations for turning the war into the new normal.

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In the typical style of Israel’s center-left governments between the 1950s and 1980s, especially that of the self-righteous Golda Meir, they say they are sorry for the Palestinian suffering, “but we have no choice.” They barely mention military and settler brutality and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the West Bank and Jerusalem. And, of course, they strongly oppose the cases being brought against Israel in The Hague. The result is an updated version of “conflict management” — one that, despite their other differences, unites virtually all currents of Israeli politics.