Well, to get on with the war, and maybe actually find a way to end it, we have to try and analyze what the fronts are, and then how we dissolve those fronts.
If an operation is looming in Rafah, then Hamas does not really have a meaningful future in Gaza. Hamas can hide in the tunnels, but the operational level is gone, you can’t control a country from tunnels. You can wreak havoc, but to run a country requires institutions to work.
At the other hand, if the leaders of Hamas, does not have way out, they have no other option than to keep fighting. So we really need to give the leadership an out.
What we may be able to offer the leaders of Hamas, would be an amnesty to them, a place to live, in exchange for a change of government in Gaza. It is not about destroying Gaza or punishing Gaza, but about making some kind of viable constitution, that will make it really possible to live side by side. I know, that the scars and wounds run deep. But the continuation of the war just leads to more suffering for everybody.
G-d bless the will to find a way to finish this war, with the least amount of suffering for BOTH sides.
