i don't consider what's happening in gaza to be a war and don't think that using the language of war is helpful, but all sides will want to utilize it for their own propaganda reasons. hamas is not a legitimate political organization, it's an organized crime network, and any action against hamas should be framed as a police operation to uphold the rule of law, not as a war. the israeli right will not see the situation in such terms, and the israeli government will continue to frame the issue as a war, in order to generate it's own ethnic nationalist jingoism. this is the basic problem here: all sides are on the far right, so it's impossible to align with any of them. i don't want to support a war, i want to support the assertion of the rule of law by the use of overwhelming state force, which is what is necessary in a region beset by rampant criminality and lawlessness. netanyahu is only useful as a temporary ally, as an abundantly clear lesser evil. the israeli state may not have been a clear lesser evil in past years when the palestinians were secular and marxist, but it is unquestionably a lesser evil when placed next to the deplorable and depraved hamas. much of the contemporary fake left is either disconnected from the political reality in gaza (hamas is not a left-wing proletariat resistance front struggling against colonialism, although past palestinian political organizations have been; hamas is a theocratic right-wing terrorist group funded by organized crime that wants to install a brutal fascist dictatorship in a region smaller than most cities. they're the "palestinian mafia" and they're out of control.), or doesn't actually care.
netanyahu is under intense pressure to get the hostages released, so you have to understand this in terms of israeli political pressure. he's trying to save himself, politically. we'll have to see if it works. the ceasefire is for four days, so i wouldn't get excited about it.
i'm not interested in israeli vengeance, but if they don't succeed in annihilating hamas and installing a legitimate civilian government as an expression of the rule of law, this was an expensive waste of time and that should cost netanyahu politically, as well. this process has to have a concrete result attached to it.