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Israels society has been deeply poisoned with fascism for many years and it grew exponentially over the past 8 months, especially with the encouragement of its allies. Even if the protest marches make up ten percent of the population, very few of them are in the army. And a lot of the people protesting Netanyahu do support the genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank.
The problem is that seeking peace is not only dangerous to Netanyahu and his crownies. If the IDF stops the genocide now, there is the risk of accountability for its soldiers. People might start to question the atrocities not only committed, but proudly filmed and uploaded to social media. If they stop now they would need to acknowledge, that their targets were still humans with dignity and rights that they brutally violated. By continuing the genocide they can continue the story of fighting "human animals" and justify their actions to themselves and internally.
If they stop the genocide now, there is 2 million people left that need to get access to humanitarian aid, need to be sheltered and there is basically all of Gaza that needs to be rebuilt. If Israel would pay for that, it would extremely strain them financially and the terrorist settlers and other fascists would fight it violently. If the western allies would have to do it, they would be very pissed with how much money they'll have to put forward, further severing ties.
All the survivors are potential witnesses and creating some sort of stability will allow them to tell their stories. There can be research into everything that happened and war crimes could be documented and verifies very precisely.
So the murderers in the IDF and all the fascists have a lot to loose and they have all the guns. A military coup is a very real threat and whoever is protesting now does not have the same individual risks associated with continuing. Instead the risk is more abstract of Israel breaking apart and being left without support by its former allies, ultimately leading to its defeat. But that is not so much of a motivation to put yourself in front of a gun as staying out of life imprisonment is a motivation for the person holding that gun to pull the trigger on you.