I'm in full agreement with your first, broad point. In the UK we've been lied to by our ruling classes for years.
I must have missed your question about Netanyahu. You always speak in such rhetorical riddles about the Middle East that I'm surprised to read a question I can understand. To which the answer is 'No'.
So you think the breakout from Gaza was a surprise?
Even the Israeli press have doubts on that one.
I seem to recall a Labour activist being accused of antisemitism for having the gall to suggest that Netanyahu was lying and being expelled.
And of course Charlie Kirk famously voiced his disbelief at the official story citing the response time and level of surveillance routinely deployed around Gaza.
What happened to that guy?........