Explain the 1948 war and 1973 war being alike

Israel Studies An Anthology : The Israeli-Arab War of 1948 ... The 1973 Yom Kippur War  are incompatible and sometimes mutually reproaching but, like their Israeli counterparts, they too share common notions. Despite all of this, Israel's military superiority was still insufficient to explain the final outcomes of the war.

The second , larger puritan colony of massachusetts bay was conceived as a "city upon a hill". but it also struggled with internal turmoil like the salem witch trials and external conflicts like king philip's (metacom's) war.