So, entire governments fund and continue a military campaign in order to shield a particular official? No other explanation need be considered?
I'm not sure I can buy that. Sorry. Even if it provides some with a convenient deflection.
So, entire governments fund and continue a military campaign in order to shield a particular official? No other explanation need be considered?
I'm not sure I can buy that. Sorry. Even if it provides some with a convenient deflection.
Netenyahu was complicit in the assassination of PM Rabin back in the 90s, and has happily sided with the most extreme combative fundamentalist factions in Israeli politics since ignoring the shin bets request to stop running mock executions of Rabin (right before his assassination) - in their protests. He then had the gall to turn on the shin bet later on.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/labor-chief-michaeli-rabin-was-assassinated-with-netanyahus-cooperation/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/21/netanyahu-demanded-loyalty-trying-fire-me-shin-bet-chief-israel
Not to mention Netenyahu helped heavily fund Hamas and simultaneously keep the PA weak to avoid any real pushes for a two state solution.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/
No war = no Netenyahu - he has to keep it going
Netenyahu was complicit in the assassination of PM Rabin back in the 90s, and has happily sided with the most extreme combative fundamentalist factions in Israeli politics since ignoring the shin bets request to stop running mock executions of Rabin (right before his assassination) - in their protests. He then had the gall to turn on the shin bet later on.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/labor-chief-michaeli-rabin-was-assassinated-with-netanyahus-cooperation/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/21/netanyahu-demanded-loyalty-trying-fire-me-shin-bet-chief-israel
Not to mention Netenyahu helped heavily fund Hamas and simultaneously keep the PA weak to avoid any real pushes for a two state solution.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/
No war = no Netenyahu - he has to keep it going
This graph has clearer colors:

Legend: Israeli and Palestinian deaths preceding the Gaza war in 2023. Most were civilians.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_genocide_allegations
Today in the Wall Street Journal:
Egypt Warned Netanyahu of Impending Attack on Israel Before Oct. 7
The alert adds to claims that the Israeli leader ignored signs of Hamas’s battle plans, giving his election opponents fuel
Egypt’s intelligence chief, Abbas Kamel, was growing anxious.
It was early October 2023 and two Egyptian warnings about signs of an impending attack from Gaza had gone unheeded by Israel. Kamel called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to deliver a third alert, said officials in an Arab government.
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/egypt-warned-netanyahu-of-impending-attack-on-israel-before-oct-7-8e3d5ae0?mod=hp_lead_pos3
This graph has clearer colors:

Legend: Israeli and Palestinian deaths preceding the Gaza war in 2023. Most were civilians.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_genocide_allegations
Today in the Wall Street Journal:
Egypt Warned Netanyahu of Impending Attack on Israel Before Oct. 7
The alert adds to claims that the Israeli leader ignored signs of Hamas’s battle plans, giving his election opponents fuel
Egypt’s intelligence chief, Abbas Kamel, was growing anxious.
It was early October 2023 and two Egyptian warnings about signs of an impending attack from Gaza had gone unheeded by Israel. Kamel called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to deliver a third alert, said officials in an Arab government.
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/egypt-warned-netanyahu-of-impending-attack-on-israel-before-oct-7-8e3d5ae0?mod=hp_lead_pos3