Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reemerged at the end of 2022 from his political deathbed due to him being ousted from power in 2021 under the cloud of having to face multiple criminal charges. Somehow, during November 2022 Israeli’s elections, when an extreme right coalition surprisingly emerged as winners, Mr. Netanyahu was invited to lead Israel again.

Then in 2023, this governing group of right-wingers set out to overhaul Israel’s judiciary, by turning this 75-year-old democracy into an autocracy that would place them in a better position make good on their dream of ousting Palestinians in the West Bank and elsewhere from Israel.

Fortunately, on a regular and frequent basis, Israeli citizens took to the streets to protest in the 1000s, to where most of these alleged judiciary reforms are still under review by Israel’s Supreme Court. It was at this point, that the poll numbers for Prime Minister Netanyahu and his extreme right governing partners took a nose-dive, putting their already tenuous hold on power at risk.

These developments form the catalyst for what the world is seeing unfold today with the 2023 Israel-Hamas war. But, because of this war, any trials regarding the prime minister’s past wrong doings have been put on hold.

This group of far-right legislators have a long history of being opposed to any peaceful solutions for both Palestine and Israel. What they’ve always wanted is for Palestinians to no longer be living inside Israel.

Working towards this goal and over time, these right-wing politicians have diligently labored to weaken the Palestinian governing body in the West Bank, the Fatah or the Palestinian Authority while propping up the terrorist governing body in Gaza, Hamas which has as its founding charter, always called for ending the existence of Israel, and despite Israel having fought 3 other wars in Gaza targeting Hamas between 2008 and the current crisis.

This tactic by Israeli officials doesn’t make any sense, unless they were in the process of delivering on their long-term plans to oust Palestinians from both the West Bank and Gaza.

While Israelis claim the West Bank as disputed land and their birthright, most of the international community considers the settlements, home to about 700,000 Israeli settlers, illegal.

The following article explains Israel’s attitude towards Palestinians in the West Bank...

As per a September 21, 2023 AP report, “UN reports says West Bank settler violence has displaced over  1,100 Palestinians since 2022″ by Julia Frankel:

“Violence from Israeli settlers has displaced over 1,100 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since 2022, according to a U.N. report, with officials describing the exodus as unparalleled in recent years.”

“The report documented about three settler-related incidents each day in the West Bank — the highest daily average since the U.N. began documenting the trend in 2006. The violence has completely emptied out five Palestinian communities. Six more have seen half their inhabitants leave, and seven have seen a quarter flee, the report said.”

“As Israeli settlements expand under the far-right government of Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinians say the violence from radical Israeli settlers has reached a fever.”

So, these same Israeli right-wing players became fixated on figuring out a way to relocate Palestinians, governed by Hamas, away from the Gaza strip, without being condemned by the international community to become a “pariah state” like Russia.

Remember that their 2023 plans to alter Israels’ judiciary in their favor was on hold and with their tanking poll numbers, there was no way they were going to be able to hold onto power to accomplish their objectives.

In the meantime, when Qatar officials inquired if Israel still wanted monies to be delivered to Hamas, just weeks before the October 7, 2023 massacre, Israel’s Prime Minister “Bibi” Netanyahu gave his approval.

There’s no way that the Israeli prime minister’s claims of NEVER having been in possession of timely, ample, detailed intelligence data from multiple reliable sources regarding the imminent 2023 battle plans by Hamas, holds water, unless this was part of a calculated strategy where he wanted to have “plausible deniability.”

I’ve become more and more convinced that the Israeli prime minister and his extreme right-wing cohorts have a lot of explaining to do, and that the international community and US officials are making a colossal mistake in waiting for the war to end before demanding answers, as well as exacting a major adjustment in Israel’s current high intensity warfare in Gaza to one of micro-targeting Hamas leaders, where the deaths of civilians are drastically reduced and where ample humanitarian aid gets delivered.

For information as to how many ways Israel had ample warning, see: Was PM Netanyahu’s epic failure over the Oct 7 massacre, inadvertent or even deliberate?

Israel’s refusal to help Ukraine…

As per February 6, 2023 Foreign Policy report, “Why Israel‘s Netanyahu Won’t Arm Ukraine Against Russia” by Steven A. Cook:

Excerpts:

“Even if much of the Israel-Russia relationship is about Syria and security, there is more to these ties. Israel’s leaders almost reflexively define the country as both democratic and part of the West, but worldview matters. And as Israeli politics have moved steadily to the right under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s stewardship, Jerusalem has forged ties with countries that do not fall into either category.”

“Political affinities based on nationalism, identity, antipathy to liberalism, and hostility to Muslims seem to have played a role in driving Israel’s ties to a constellation of illiberal countries—notably Russia, Hungary, Poland, India, and Brazil under former President Jair Bolsonaro.”

“Netanyahu does not seem to be a natural cultural warrior, preferring to emphasize security and how good he is at providing it for Israelis, but at moments of crisis he has demonstrated his willingness to use racist dog whistles and throw his lot in with illiberal politicians. More recently, he made common cause with Israel’s nationalist, illiberal, religious right, whose leaders share the ideological inclinations of the global right—of which the Russian president is a leader.”

“Although Netanyahu’s coalition is made up of parties that collectively garnered fewer votes than other parties, Ben-Gvir, Smotrich, Maoz, and others are acting as if they have an overwhelming mandate to tilt power in favor of the Knesset, where they currently hold a slim majority.”

“Since Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the Israeli government—much like the Turkish government—has played a double game, offering rhetorical support for Ukrainian independence and providing humanitarian aid to Kyiv. At least the Turks are willing to sell the Ukrainians weaponry. The Israelis, in contrast, are scrupulously avoiding any policies that will damage Jerusalem’s ties to Moscow.”

“In mid-January, the Biden administration asked Israel to send 1950s-era Hawk systems, which have been in storage, to Kyiv to help the Ukrainians defend against a barrage of Russian missiles and Iranian drones. The Israelis reportedly refused.”

“The press has focused a fair amount on Netanyahu’s parochial interest in making changes to laws that would allow him to escape prosecution for corruption. From one perspective, that is the least the prime minister’s (ultra conservative) partners can do for him in exchange for allowing them to alter how justices for the Supreme Court are chosen and providing Israel’s legislature the power to overrule the country’s highest court. This change could allow the government to expand Israeli control over the West Bank, undermine the rights of non-Jewish Israelis, and firmly situate Israeli identity within a specifically Orthodox version of what constitutes Jewishness. Included in this would be a significant change to Israel’s “Law of Return,” which has been critical in connecting Jews around the world to Israel. In addition, Israel’s tolerant environment for the LGBTQ community is in jeopardy as Maoz—who openly espouses homophobic views—vows to pursue an anti-gay and anti-trans agenda, a hallmark of the illiberal global right.”

Excerpts:

“Given (Biden’s) long and deep attachment to Israel, the brutality of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, and the lack of policy alternatives in the first several weeks of the crisis, it’s doubtful that Biden could have followed another course that would have been more successful. Standing by Israel, deterring Hezbollah and Iran from escalating the conflict, and pursuing negotiations to secure the release of hostages as well as buy time and space to ameliorate—though admittedly not end—the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza have proven to be the right, though hardly perfect, choices.”

“Still, having tethered U.S. policy to Israel’s war aims—the eradication of Hamas—Biden now finds himself in a bind. The humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the exponential rise in the deaths and suffering of Gaza’s civilian population have undermined U.S. credibility at home, in the Arab and Muslim world, and in the international community. Going forward, the success or failure of U.S. policy may well rest on whether Biden can reshape Israel’s military campaign, alleviate the humanitarian situation, and engage Israel and other partners in coming up with a workable plan for post-war Gaza.”