Interesting post from @Babale here that I want to respond to in this thread in case this is a bit off topic from that one, or gets contentions. Here you acknowledge that, were someone like Smotrich PM, Israel definitely could cross the line to genocidal behavior. That’s not surprising to me. But what I still don’t get is that, ISTM, Netanyahu lies somewhere between the perfect, ideal Israeli PM and Smotrich in terms of willingness to implement and excuse genocidal behavior (or ethnic cleansing or whatever). Presumably, you’d agree with that, correct? If so, then how are you so confident (apparently, at least AFAICT) that, as PM with regards to this war, Netanyahu is essentially acting as the perfect, ideal Israeli PM, rather than somewhere pretty far from that, on the spectrum between that perfect PM and Smotrich?
Because ISTM that, quite obviously, Netanyahu is acting much, much worse than the perfect Israeli PM with regards to this war, if not nearly as bad as Smotrich would. It’s just not feasible to me that Netanyahu stumbled his way into perfectly both morally as well as tactically and strategically in terms of war leadership.