So what's your plan? I considered all the alternatives. I consider the arguments against those alternatives far more compelling than the arguments against my proposal.
As a start? Capture or neutralize Hamas leadership using as strategically limited a response as possible. Then conduct an operation with the United Nations or some other multilateral coalition to secure the Gaza Strip and end the Hamas dictatorship.
Once that's completed, allow in massive shipments of humanitarian aid and work with the coalition to remove weapons caches from the Strip. Transfer control to a United Nations mission and hold multiparty elections as soon as possible, with a ban on organizations or political fronts that do not recognize Israel's right to exist. Finally, rework security and Israeli intelligence to focus on identifying cells of potential terrorist activity rather than a wholesale blockade.
This is not a good solution as I reckon securing control of the Gaza Strip would be extremely bloody and result in massive casualties to both civilians and the armed forces, not to mention it would be very difficult to implement some aspects of the plan. I'd say it's still better than an infeasible and unethical plan for expelling 2 million Palestinians to Egypt.
I would love if this was a practical solution but I simply do not believe it to be. I think most of the people in Gaza love Hamas and will do everything in their power to protect and hide them from Israel while conducting a vicious, bloody, neverending guerilla urban warfare campaign. We'll see in a couple weeks if I'm right. I hope I'm wrong. But this isn't exactly the first time something like this has been tried in the modern era.
Why not do this instead:
What should happen is Israel should invade and occupy Gaza then do the equalivent of denazification there . Also every major Hamas leader should be put on trial and that trial should be televised for everyone in Gaza to see the crimes committed by Hamas
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