> And what is exactly being done about this?
> And what is being done about that?
Less than was being done before, now that Hamas has slaughtered over 1000 Israeli civilians, taking attention away from Israeli crimes in the West Bank. In fact, it appears that settler extremists have used this as cover to step up their crimes, murdering a bunch of West Bank Palestinians in the past few weeks.
I hope you can see how people might see this situation as a lesson that the West Bank approach of encroachment and murder _is_ in fact the correct approach, and letting Gazan's form a state was a mistake that lead to the slaughter of over 1000 Jews.
> They not only forced them to leave: they also demolished the buildings they left behind.
What is your point? Settlers were demolishing and dismantling buildings _they_ had built and owned. If anything, Israel tried to at least hand over many greenhouses intact. But Gazan's looted many of the intact ones after the handover. This is all well documented: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_disengagement_from_Gaz...
> 10 years is nothing and again, this is the sort of thinking that keeps on fueling this conflict: you don't need a solution for 10 years, you need one that actually works. And killing large numbers of people rarely solves problems. If anything history should have taught us that.
10 years is a lot better than 3 years. And if Israel makes a concerted effort to destroy Hamas now, and keeps Gaza from redeveloping, the next attack by the next Hamas is likely to kill a lot less people. That's a win for Israel.
> Rabin had the right idea: de-escalate and normalize.
Much safer to attempt that after Hamas is utterly crushed. After all Israel just tried the de-escalate and normalize approach over the past few years. Hamas used that deescalation to plan and prepare for their recent attack. They've even bragged about the fact that they deceptively did that, duping Israel into thinking Hamas was focusing on their economy: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/how-israel-was-dup...
The tens of thousands of Hamas members who planned and carried out the recent massacre are monsters. Simple as that. They need to be thoroughly wiped out.
The sort of people who rape and murder on a huge scale in cold blood are not the sort of people who are worth negotiating with. Diplomacy has its limits. Negotiating with the Nazi's proved to be a mistake. Negotiating with Hamas is no different.