Netanyahu pressed on with his attacks on Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in an interview broadcast Thursday, denouncing Canberra’s “appeasement” of terror groups and their supporters in the West.

He also vowed to go through with plans to take over all of Gaza militarily even if Hamas agrees to a ceasefire and hostage release deal.

Rarely see unintentional irony that vivid on that sort of scale.

Rather obviously, the actual “problem” is that after far too many years of appeasing the most violent and deadly terrorist organization in the Middle East, Australia has finally stopped.

And now the head of that terrorist organization is pissed.

Not every tactic - no.

And Russia is introducing some novel tactics of its own, like kidnapping and indoctrinating Ukrainian children.

I have little doubt though that the broad strategy is exactly the same - what they can’t take immediately, they intend to take incrementally.

And in fact, that’s essentially what they’re already announcing to the world. They can’t be unaware of the fact that, to much of the world, stating that they’re patterning the proposed occupation after the West Bank is effectively stating outright that they fully intend for Russia to then incrementally steal everything and to kill anyone who tries to stop them.

I assume that also means that Russia would then send in state-sponsored terrorists in the guise of “settlers” to murder the Ukrainians and incrementally steal their land, and send in the army to slaughter them if they dare to fight back.

He asserts that “our goal is not to occupy Gaza, our goal is to free Gaza.”

That’s not just ridiculously obviously a lie - it’s provably a lie.

Israel has already struck a deal with Egypt to sell natural gas from deposits in Gazan territorial waters. Therefore it must be the case that Israel is already planning on not only occupying but annexing Gaza - they could not claim ownership of those gas deposits otherwise.