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 https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-20/ty-article-opinion/.premium/a-brief-history-of-the-netanyahu-hamas-alliance/0000018b-47d9-d242-abef-57ff1be90000

Sure is convenient that the Israelis get to kill as many Palestinians as they want without it being a genocide, because the terror group that they supported (specifically because they were too radical for the rest of the world to take seriously) attacked them 
 Indeed, as I said Netanyahu has a thing or two coming to him, one way or the other. There's plenty that needs to be looked over on the Israeli side of the fence.

And words have meanings, Genocide being one that has specific preconditions that have to be met before you can invoke that concept. That the circumstances for civilians are deplorable doesn't mean that you can throw any word in the dictionary at it in the hope that it all sticks. 
 The ICJ taking the genocide charge seriously and allowing the case to proceed means that the technical definition of genocide is likely (or at least plausibly) being met