@rameshgupta i will admit to brushing off the Netanyahu point, because he represents Israeli political will, and is one member of the unity government war cabinet and does not have absolute power over decision-making.
i thought the point about world security was already addressed in the original post's remark about harm to alliance-making in the future, so i don't consider that point to have been brushed off.
i will now try to address all of the other points, and can return to any of the previous.
i agree, but when Iran attacked on April 13, Blinken described the commitment to Israel's security as 'ironclad,' and Biden has repeatedly said that hamas must be eliminated since October 7th. Israel's reply to Iran's attack was curtailed in exchange for US approval of the Rafah operation, a fact reported on in the press. previous concerns were over the need to evacuate civilians, but despite Israel drafting a plan for doing so and beginning to implement it...