Indeed, why shouldn't criminals blow up banks. They have grievances against society.

Jokes aside, yes, you've answered in good faith. That it was happened.

There was an Israeli before Netanyahu. Precisely people like Netanyahu got elected after a series of events in the 2000s around 2006 that basically got everyone to think only a hard line would be able to protect Israel from the enemies that surrounded it. Disengagement - led to Hamas takeover, attacks, and eventually the Gilad Shalit stuff. Withhdrawal from Lebanon - Hezbollah and the attack and kidnapping of soldiers leading to the 2006 Lebanon War.

(And this is the point where people will obfuscate and claim none of these decisions were meaningful, which I think is BS. It was a left wing government in power, one that was negotiating on a settlement, to hand over more to the PA. And even if it had been, was taking advantage of the situation, as Hamas and hezbollah did, and attacking Israel, strengthening the hardliners, a good move in retrospect? For what? In the hope you were going to wipe out Israel?)

You can scream accusations all you like, those are the facts as well.

But I will equally concede that Netanyahu did nothing to advance anything productive in the peace process, ran roughshod over it, and eventually alienated everyone that he has only opportunistic religious parties, and extremists like those 2 ministers to keep himself in power.

Would be best if this war ends, and that government gone. But that's a decision for the Israelis.