Whack-a-Mole.

You know the arcade game?  

That's what the Israeli Army is doing right now -- not so much soldiers facing up against soldiers on the underground battlefields where combatants take fire and kill in return...

They have the Pali people on the run, telling them "this place is safe" and then, "Now... go here!"

Whilst the people try to scramble to keep their children and elders safe, the Army gleefully laughs and sometimes apologizes:  "Whoops -- used too big a bomb for conditions;  sorry to have killed your kids~!"

Whack a mole. 

 While they scramble for safety, the Army rains down American-taxpayer-supplied weapons from above.  On an unarmed populace, killing primarily women and children...

Is Israel proud of this fighting force? Honestly?  

I am glad not to be a conspiracy thinker. You'd hate to think somebody was "paid off" to close their eyes on Oct. 7 to the Hamas attacks the Israeli intelligence agencies allegedly were warned was coming, only to provide political cover to Benyamin Netanyahu's right-wing religiously conservative administration that was floundering under charges of corruption and a judiciary power grab...

Now, as Israel shames itself by alleging it must kill children, women and unarmed civilians so that no more Palistinian terrorists arise from the rubble of Gaza to avenge their losses on the Israeli, (and American?), people... Netanyahu has united his country.

For now.  These are not ignorant people.  Worldwide, Israeli Jews must understand that Israel is redefining itself and remaking itself in the religious extremist settler's visions o the future of their country.  Will the secular Jews worldwise be able to influence Israel's future as much as the American evangelists and the American-Israeli lobbyists egging the U.S. Congress on to provide more heavy weapons to up the conflagration in the Middle East?

Maybe we greenlight Israel attacking Lebanon now?  Who's next?

Unless something changes internally in Israeli society and the moderates and progressives are able to wrest power away from the religious conservatives, America will not be able to continue supporting, and funding, Israel's push to power their way militarily to the End Times whereby God returns to the earth to sort the sheep from the goats, the living from the dead, and promising New Life to all believers...

(oh, and the Temple gets destroyed and rebuilt or something?, if you are looking at it from the non- literal-Biblical/American Evangelical Christian perspective)

That should be a protected minority viewpoint, not a foreign-policy goal disguised as latter-day prosperity gospel/manifest destiny project -- believe in whatever you wish and teach your children to value whatever you please -- but not one subsidized by U.S. taxpayers who do not share the American Evangelic Christian viewpoint nor the vision of a united Israel, from the river to the sea, that the religious Israeli extremist settlers believe is their birthright from their God.