Exactly this. Glad someone else can see it. Having studied other settler colonial states (I believe), Israel realizes that Western weapons and doctrine guarantees they'll win every single confrontation with the Palestinians, just like the Rhodesians & Apartheid South Africa. Easily too, with insane KD ratios.

Those two regimes won every battle easily, but what eventually did them in was sanctions. And, when the West sanctions you, you eventually collapse or stay economically irrelevant. Case in point: USSR, Maoist China, Rhodesia, South Africa, etc.

But, the Boomer, Christian Zionist generation is dying out, along with older Germans (and Europeans) who still struggle with some Teutonic guilt.

Irreligious, humanist youngsters across the Americas and Europe now see it's a clear good vs. bad struggle and the Zionists are not the good guys, so Israel likely believes they need to expel the Palestinians from Gaza & the West Bank within one generation or they'll be facing devastating sanctions within 10-20 years.

Given that Israel's economy depends heavily on technology service exports, diamonds, and agriculture, if they don't change posture and end up getting sanctioned, it'll cripple them without a doubt. Just cutting off their technology workers' foreign exchange salaries is enough to shrink the economy by half once that FX channel dries up.

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foobarian 4 days ago | parent [-]

What I don't understand is why not go along with letting at least WB or also Gaza get recognized as Palestine and do what India and Pakistan did going forward. Seems like it would be a lot more likely to work and a lot less risky. Maybe there are some special resources in either place?

	▲	insane_dreamer 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		A politically powerful segment of Israel is adamantly opposed to the two-state solution. And the strategic positioning of Israeli settlers over the years on WB land (in violation of signed treaties) has intentionally rendered establishing an independent WB as "logistically impossible" due to "security concerns" (protection of the settlers). There's no way forward without removing the settlers, and removing the settlers is political suicide in Israel, where hard-right parties have an oversized influence in the government.
	▲	monocasa 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		A lot of geopolitics that leads to invasion is more about groupthink among whatever ruling class than any actual resource gains. See Russia->Ukraine, US->Iraq, soon China->Taiwan.