All these cultures in this region have been fighting with their neighbors since before time, read almost Any chapter of the OT.
Reminds me or the Catholics and Protestants in Ireland, buncha stupid people with stupid pointless prejudices killing each other off, hurry up.

If it were me, I'd have posted this under "Politics". Posting it under "Feline Fanatics" because you see it as a "cat and mouse game" is just over thinking it.

Personally, I have not paid all that much attention to the conflict, other than I am aware that Hamas attacked Israel, which started a war and it is spreading, and the underlying causes of the war, no matter what the latest justifications are, is basically religious intolerance, as well as tribal conflicts that are centuries old. I don't invest my mind or thinking about it because the conflict(s) in that part of the word are based in religion, superstition and long standing conflicts which have been culturally indoctrinated.

There will be inhumane things done by both sides, because neither side is acting out of rationality. I am not about to try to take sides as I see both as being irrational. I don't believe either side really wants peace, and they won't until enough people on both sides die in the fighting, but if history is any clue, any peace would only be temporary, until they forget enough of what war is like and then they will just find a new excuse to start fighting again.

I sincerely wish it were otherwise.

It's rather simple to me. UN/ International laws states it is not just a law, but a "right" to resist an uninvited foreign military occupation [en.wikipedia.org]
This is all Palestinians are doing, exercising this right. If my country had to submit to an occupation as brutal as the IDF occupiers, I would be resisting too, I would also exercise this human right we all have.
"Settlements" are fair game, because you don't build "settlements" in your own country.

Apartheid society is also BS, so Zionism must go. They can't share nice so don't get to have control of the toys anymore and set the rules of the game. Had their chance, blew it.