So why type it in the first place?

Sadly the occupation of Gaza is a popular stance to some degree. My estimation (and hope, it might be pure hopium) is that the majority of those people when asked about the consequences of occupying Gaza (even without international heat or morality speaking, just the crippling of our economy with constant reservists deployed, destroying families doing that, etc..) would revert their stance and mumble some other populist idea without thinking it out either. There is another large group who thinks the consequences are worth the "gains", whatever they are... this group consists mostly of religious right wingers (i.e religious zionism) who are in a pickle between Smotrich representing their ideas pretty spoken, but also being "fucked" by this government by the religious sector doing loads of IDF days being called to be reservists. between them not all agree with the ideas of smotrich, but sadly the "radical" (which is a large group between the religious zionism entity) ones agree with smotrich, but are fucked by his partnership to the Haridi, who are working overtime not to get drafted to IDF and continue sucking money for their education system which consists mostly of Torah and Sexual assaults (ok not that many, but every closed group has this phenomenon at increased level from general population), and the refusal to insert core material like math and english. Him (Smotrich) being out of polls and IBG rising by 2-3 seats (overall 4-10 seats decline between smotrich not passing threshold and IBG rising a bit) is a representation of those who agree with smotrich's ideas shifting to IBG, and those who don't agree with him and are getting fucked by his partnership shifting to other right wingers (Bennet, Yossi Cohen which might be a new party, Liberman, Reservist Party which is rumored to run) who might be more moderate then smotrich, but will help them get Haridi drafted and lessen their strain with being a reservist.

The government so far in all polls are getting around 45-50 seats (from 120), while opposition without arab parties are getting around 58-65. My hope is for 58 which would force either Bibi (which he did tickle with the idea of getting Abbas too, only to backdown because he didn't need to) or the opposition to run with an arab party like Bennet did when Mansour Abbas entered the coalition in 2020 with Ra'am.

The politics in Israel is pretty wild because we are pretty gridlocked for 5-7 years (depends how you count, or what events) between at 61-59 parliament, which just gave every MK so much power to topple the government (like Silman did over fucking Hametz in hospitals, that fucking unhinged women, who also defected to Likud from Bennet) and to demand crazy notions, like IBG getting internal security after Bibi saying he won't run with him, and afterthat he will run without but won't give him a minister... so it's hard to say the governemtn really represents the entire society because this gridlock IS real, and Bibi getting to PM due to left wing parties not signing vote-sharing agreement (Meretz was out of the parliment due to not passing threshold, all their votes were canceled and not moved to Haavoda because no agreement, so coalition gained 3 seats because of this shit).

We are not a monoloith, we have vast amount of ideas and opinions here...

Regarding settlers, no idea what you're aiming for or what the questions are. I oppose every settlement being built or expanded since at least 2005 during the summer of Hitnatkut and thrive to continue the notion started there of trying to let go and see what happens. 7 of october really killed this notion to A LOT of israeli people.