Ok, there’s two issues here: Gaza and the West Bank. They’re related but mostly completely separate.

First: The land doesn’t have resources to covet. That’s never been the issue.

There is a fundamentalist religious group that Netanyahu has found common cause with who does want the land in the West Bank due to the biblical claim they feel the Jews have to it.

Not for nothing, that same group is so extreme that they wouldn’t consider bacon cheeseburger-eating me or the bulk of Israel’s population to even be actually Jewish.

It’s not unlike the evangelical movement in the US aligning with MAGA to push through historically unpopular legislation on women’s health, immigration, etc.

Netanyahu and Likud have enabled that deep minority sect in Israel’s population to behave abhorrently in the West Bank. That’s a completely legitimate criticism and not one a moral person can try to defend.

That said, the right wingers were only able to take power due to constant violence from the Palestinians. Israel had to spend billions to create that 80’s arcade game missile command in real life due to the constant rocket attacks.

My point is this:

There’s a very big difference between nakedly aggressive terrorist nations like Iran or groups like ISIS than Israel.

I sincerely hope Netanyahu and his party are removed from power sooner rather than later, and Israel has a civic mechanism for doing that.

In actual terrorist states like Iran, the terrorist regimes can only be removed by violence. This is the case in Gaza with Hamas as well.

For there to be a lasting peace, both Likud and Hamas will need to be gone. I suspect Likud won’t survive the next Israeli election.

Hamas won’t survive much longer either, but that’s because they’re terrorists, not Israel.