Netanyahu was gifted an opportunity to boost his global standing by handling an attack on his country with dignity, grace, and precision.
He's somehow fumbled this so badly that he's managed to turn most of the world against Israel despite them not firing the first shot in this particular war, He's exposed the atrocities Israel has committed to an entire generation of people who may have never known about them otherwise, and his response goes so far beyond the scope of defense that they're well into the realm of genocide.
I know several people who were… uneasy with the destitution and humanitarian issues they saw in Gaza, but supported Israel overall because before Oct7 the news was only “Hamas fires 16 rockets against Haifa” and Israel wasn’t going wild carpet bombing
That ambiguous support is gone now that Likud & the coalition have gone full mask off. They’re not pushing BDS, but their view has fundamentally shifted on this conflict over a matter of days and weeks
He's a far-right Zionist psychopath. A religious nut job doing an ethnic cleansing, and western leaders support this form of racial apartied and violence. In some cases they're even funding it.