This:

But it does explain why Israel views the actions of Hamas and Hezbollah as an existential threat and it does explain why Israel doesn't listen to international pressure to end their campaign to destroy that existential threat.

Is nonsense.

Why?

A quick glance at the renaming of huge swaths of the West Bank as Samaria and Judea, and the 700,000 or so 'illegal settlers' is just one small drop in the ocean of Israel's deadly and avaricious entitlement.

Golan Heights? Illegally annexed.

Sheeba Farms in Lebanon? Illegally occupied.

Unless the right to steal more land is an existential threat, then the tarnished holocaust halo is exactly that:

A tired old excuse for the traumatized to traumatize others.