On the goal of the war – Aluf Benn in Haaretz:

‘Control of the Philadephi route and the "security corridor" along the border allows Israel to surround Gaza's land borders and isolate it from Egypt. Control of the Netzarim road route in practice divides northern Gaza, where few Palestinian remain with destroyed homes and infrastructures, from the southern part of the coastal enclave, overflowing with refugees from the entire Strip.

In practice, a long-term arrangement for "the day after" is being drawn up. Israel will control the northern Gaza Strip and drive out the 300,000 Palestinian still there. Maj.-Gen. (res.) Giora Eiland, the war's ideologue, proposes starving them to death, or exiling them, as a lever with which to defeat Hamas. The Israeli right envisions a Jewish settlement of the area, with vast real estate potential of convenient topography, a sea view, and proximity to central Israel.’

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‘Do not get confused: occupation is the goal Netanyahu is fighting for, even at the price of the remaining hostages dying, and at the risk of a regional war. The scaffolding holding up his regime, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance MinisterBezalel Smotrich, will stand in place so long as he seeks by word and deed a permanent occupation and creeping annexation of Gaza.
At this week's cabinet meeting, Netanyahu reiterated his 1996 slogan against the Oslo Accords: "Give and take, not give and give." In simpler terms: Occupied territory will not be returned, even under international pressure and even now, faced with the hostages' pleas. That is the goal of his war.’

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If Netanyahu and his allies even partly succeed in this goal, Israel be a pariah state for many years to come.
But pariah states can survive, they tend to become more and more corrupt but they can survive.

More worrisome or at least as worrisome is that Netanyahu is making a comeback in the polls. On Friday, August 9, for the first time since the start of the war, the weekly Maariv poll conducted by Dr. Menachem Lazar found Netanyahu's Likud would win in a party vote if elections were held that day. Netanyahu also hit another landmark, coming in first place with 42 percent in a head-to-head question about whether he or National Unity party leader Benny Gantz is best suited to be prime minister. Gantz, who left Netanyahu's war cabinet in Juneto return to the opposition, was chosen by 40 percent of respondents.’

See here.

Too many people in Israel apparently have embraced the forever-war.