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Fully agreed. If it wasn't clear from my quotation marks, I think Israel is now actively exterminating a civilian population, after pursuing a policy of slow extermination spanning back for decades, with the goal of eventually eradicating the state and people of Palestine completely. And that policy of slow extermination led to the atrocities of October 7th as an absolutely predictable consequence. I put quotes around "defend herself" because that's how the State Department talks about it, but nothing Israel is doing right now makes any sense in that context or any other aside from exterminating Palestinians as fast as they can get away with. Netanyahu refusing to say if he agrees to the current latest cease-fire in exchange for getting all the hostages back before they're all dead, is just yet another prime example from today.
He doesn't want the hostages back. He wants to kill Palestinians, and if them having hostages makes that easier, then he's in favor of them keeping the hostages. I don't know why anyone who writes about geopolitics buys into the ludicrous framework of it being any other way, let alone this fantasy of "defend herself." I get why the State Department says that. They're lying on purpose to accomplish their goals. What the newspapers are doing when they say it, I couldn't tell you.