The fact is Netanyahu was warned and had 18 months to develop a plan for what his government intended to do post 7/10.

The Hamas attack gave Netanyahu an opportunity to reassert Israel’s – and Jabotinsky’s – Iron Wall.

The massive and wantonly destructive war that Netanyahu has led against Hamas and Gaza since that date is the Iron Wall in its most elemental manifestation: unleashing overwhelming force as a signal that no territorial compromise with the Arabs over historical Palestine is possible. Or, as Netanyahu has repeatedly said in recent weeks, there will be no ceasefire until there’s a complete Israeli victory.

Source: Israel’s ‘Iron Wall:’ A Brief History of the Ideology Guiding Benjamin Netanyahu