> So now they use any and all excuses to try to finish the job and completely take over the West Bank and other Palestinian areas despite the war supposedly bei

> So now they use any and all excuses to try to finish the job and completely take over the West Bank and other Palestinian areas despite the war supposedly being over. Israel removed its last remaining settlements in Gaza in 2005. Israel gave up control of parts of the West Bank even earlier. There's a grain of truth to what you're saying, in that Israel wants to hang on to parts of the west bank that are strategically valuable and have large Jewish settlements, however, even the right-wing Israeli government has no interest in a long-term occupation of Gaza or of much of the West Bank. The costs are too high and the benefits are very limited. The path that the Israeli government formally supports is a two-state solution which would involve a Palestinian state comprising Gaza and the West Bank, with Israel trading some land inside Israeli borders for certain settlement blocks.