In Israel/Palestine, evaluating events and directions by ethical precepts is not helpful. Both sides (Jews and Arabs, broadly speaking) have defensible ethical claims. Putting morality aside, the Ganz piece I’ve been linking to, by my interpretation, analyzes the Hamas attack of October 7th as — my words, not his — a brilliant success. Israel is losing this conflict, and the harder it strikes, the more firepower it deploys, the more Palestinians it kills,
When you say "Netanyahu's peers," I assume you're talking about his political allies in the Knesset, who may not be stupid, but they are more expansionist, eliminationist, racist, intransigent theocrats than he is.
I'm far from expert. I assume there is a distribution around Bibi, one flank batshit crazy, the other more realistic though still evil. My presumption is that the more realistic around him along with everyone to their left will expunge him from government, before too long.
When you say "Netanyahu's peers," I assume you're talking about his political allies in the Knesset, who may not be stupid, but they are more expansionist, eliminationist, racist, intransigent theocrats than he is.
But maybe I've misinterpreted your phrase.
I'm far from expert. I assume there is a distribution around Bibi, one flank batshit crazy, the other more realistic though still evil. My presumption is that the more realistic around him along with everyone to their left will expunge him from government, before too long.