On the future - Gidi Weitz in Haaretz:

‘"This war has no purpose and no future, but prolonging it is [Netanyahu's] way of postponing engagement with the question of responsibility," a participant in meetings of the cabinet told Haaretz. "In every meeting he emphasizes that the war will continue for a long time, until its two goals – the collapse of Hamas and the return of the hostages – are achieved. In terms of experience and intelligence, he surpasses everyone there, and in my opinion he knows there is a reasonable chance that the goals will not be reached and is simply stalling for time."
"The hostages don't interest him. This is expressed not in obvious deprecation, but rather in the time he devotes to them in discussions. Furthermore, and it is terrible to say this but it's the reality: As long as the protest [movement] is dealing with the hostages' return, the protest that he fears, against the government, is delayed. I have a hard time believing he would agree to a deal for the return of the hostages in exchange for ending the fighting and the release of 'heavy" [Palestinian security] prisoners. He realizes that at that moment, Itamar Ben-Gvir leaves and the governing coalition falls apart."’

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‘But Gantz, like others, finds it hard not to suspect that what drives Netanyahu is the urge to survive at any cost and to delay for as long as possible the moment that Israelis will demand that he pay the price for his giant blunders. The results could be disastrous. "The interest of the State of Israel is my interest, the exact same thing," the prime minister told police investigators in connection to one of his corruption cases. Today, all the signs indicate that these interests are colliding with great force.’

Read the article here.

His own survival is more important to Netanyahu than the survival of his state or the people who elected him.

The result: a war with no purpose and no future, just one purpose, postponing the inevitable fall of Netanyahu.