I think a lot of mainstream Israelis have now learned the hard way regarding what happens if you ignore the Leftists in your country, while voting liberal because you feel like it’s your duty.
And, given that, if Israel does get through this still intact, there will be a major shift to the right (my prediction). The Neocons and their surrogates in Israel may have thought that they could ‘thread the needle’ and use Hamas to ‘Weaken Netanyahu’, but Hamas took that plan and ran with it to try to wipe out Israel.
You play games like that, and the result can be a bloodbath, as we’re also seeing in another country that’s been in the news a lot lately...the prior, major, ‘Neocon Project’.
We can only hope Israelis and Americans will learn their lesson concerning appeasing those that hate them.
I lived in the ME for years and found that the people to be very straight forward and easy to predict. If you were firm and did as you said you would do, life was good. But if you tried to appease the locals, they saw this is a weakness and made life difficult most of the time. No different with Liberals and RINOS in America.
The problem I have found is, as Americans and Conservatives, we believe people learn from their mistakes, but Liberals can’t or won’t ever admit their mistakes.