Ok, these are my reflections regarding the situation in Gaza. We need to be realistic about the outcome.

We do not have international support for a complete remigration of all of Gazans, so we need to realize the fact, that Gaza will still be populated by the palestinians after the war, as the West Bank.

The West Bank however is relatively quiet, no weapons caches, tunnels, rockets fired. Why? Because Israeli police and MP makes sure, that that can not happen.

So even though most Palestinians WANT to fight Israel, they can only do it, if they have the weapons to do it. So, in practice, demilitarizing Gaza, would effectively make it impossible for Gazans to fight Israel.

So it is a practical solution to the problem.

Would the Israeli police be a terrible source of oppression? Well it does not seem to be that in the West Bank, so why would it be any different in Gaza?

There is the question of the last hostages. I get it, they are in real danger now. But unless Hamas has some kind of incentive to hand them over, they won’t. So we need to give them that incentive.

One could be some kind of amnesty (for the soldiers) so that they get some kind of relief if the hand over the hostages. Effectively trading with the soldiers for the lives of the hostages.

That is a bargain.

We have to be precise, and predictable in what we do. We can promise some kind of relief, if Hamas hands over the hostages.

With that, we are optimizing our chances for success.

Stay on course, we are getting closer, and closer to victory.

G-d bless the peace, we will have after the war has been won.