As I noted in my previous post, the Israeli government’s indifference to suffering in Gaza is an effort to split the difference between either ethnic cleansing or genocide (favored by the extreme right cabinet members) and the counterinsurgency strategy supported by the American government. If this continues, Israel will be forced to pick up the entire bill for occupying and rebuilding Gaza. It will also be making certain that Joe Biden is the last pro-Israel Democratic president in my lifetime.
These are terrible problems, but Bibi probably doesn’t care, because splitting the difference is keeping him in power in the short run. Putting his political survival ahead of the national interest will have the impact described in the old Fram oil filter commercial–pay me a little more, or a lot later.