All of these levers – not to mention the tremendous sympathy and support Palestinians have received from international observers – will be essential to ensure that the high price Palestinians paid during the 51-day war was not in vain. But the levers will be useless if the leaders of Hamas and Fatah, the two dominant Palestinian factions, fail to maintain a united front.
所有这些有利形势&mdash;&mdash;更不用说巴勒斯坦人所获得来自国际观察家的巨大的同情了&mdash;&mdash;对于保证巴勒斯坦人在这场51天的战争中所付出的的高昂代价不会打水漂。但如果巴勒斯坦两大主要派系&mdash;&mdash;哈马斯和法塔赫不能维持统一战线，这些有利形势将是徒劳无益的。