Yep, that opportunity passed back in the 50's when Israel was conducting ethnic cleansing in Palestine.
It has been a slow motion genocide ever since , and the intention is and has been from the start of Bibi's plan, to ethnically cleanse Gaza and the west bank and make them uninhabitable for returning refugees, completely.
It isn't working out so well though, for a start even Israeli media discusses the chance of eliminating Hamas as impossible now, so we have a situation where Israel is stuck in a hornets nest with no clear way out or end game apart from complete the ethnic cleansing. .
But even that is looking unlikely as not only are the Palestinians resilient, the political side is getting untenable with massive cracks appearing in the Israeli government . Israel has a real problem with Hezbollah too , with northern Israel having been evacuated and now we have the Houthis managing to land a missile on Israeli territory recent which implies that the technology now will make Israeli territory more unstable and open to attack from now on.
The strategy that Israel employs -- escalate and dominate with harder blows than the opponent has faltered in the face of Iran's strike recently , where they hit the targets they wanted to without massive Israeli escalation . Israel got the message there at least.
Not so with regard to world opinion now though, where the sentiment has turned very sour indeed on the sheer flagrant and boastful brutality of the genocidal actions and the extremism on display by the leaders of the Israeli government.
Things have changed fundamentally in the region for good now , when this is over Israel will be the biggest loser followed by their sponsor the US , who's plan to pivot to Asia is now in ruins . Relations are bound to suffer now that Israel has shown just how impudent they can get by deliberately making a fool of Biden , not that they actually needed any help.
Predictions of intensifying killing of children are bound to come true over the next period as frustration at Israel's predicament sinks in , so the recent criminal warrants being sought against Bibi and co couldn't come at a better time. His days are numbered now and it is turning increasingly complicated and bad for him -- he is most deserving after all.
