If they had called a halt several weeks/months ago, they might have spun it that they were the good guys that didn't want civilian suffering to continue. But now they've been drawn into a whack-a-mole situation where they won't get everyone (impossible), and public perception will continue to worsen (which means they lose).

It’s politically hard (read: impossible) to stop a military operation until you can declare victory, which Israel can’t at this point. Bibi would be attacked from the Right for “giving up”, a flank he can hardly afford to lose.

But if he could finesse a way out, I’m surprised he hasn’t and then gone to the playbook of just eliminating the Hamas leaders on a onesie and twosie basis, as they did with the Olympics massacre masterminds. They surely have the ability to do that; it’s right next door, they have the ability to monitor communications, they can even blend in to the population pretty easily.

So I’m just gonna guess he doesn’t care about the “world view” at all . And he’s not gonna stop, especially with a likely change in administration coming in the US.

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