>>2782961Gaza isn't the center of Israel's desires, Israel only views Gaza on the long term, thats why they aren't bothering with rapid genocide, but rather concentrated with starving the place and destroying the infrastructure.
Israel's main goals are in the West Bank, their objective is to get rid of Palestinians there in order to annex the place.
With the large scale regional instability, they are also seeing opportunities in unstable state such as Lebanon and Syria.
Their interest in this expansion are two fold, they are getting rid of ennemies, and they are causing internal troubles in these countries as their annexations make these countries unstable due to the apparent weakness of the government.
Israel has the nuclear weapon, they know that no serious power can threaten them. Egypt, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, even Iran, none of them can destroy Israel even if they wanted to, because Israel can obliterate those countries, they don't view Palestine as a threat anymore either. Gaza has also opened the mind of the people in charge of Israel, as it showed them that they could commit a genocide with barely any consequences, so they realise that no one is stopping them in their expansion.
And yet here we are again, Israel taking over south Lebanon and not a word is a spoken internationally.
I think this is something more and more country are realising, America is unable and unwilling to keep the borders of the post cold war world, thats why you're seeing a lot more wars between states (Ukraine, Israel, Thailand-Cambodia, Afghanistan-Pakistan-India)