68% of US Public Wants Gaza Cease-Fire: Poll - Reuters/Ipsos

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100. True, and then taking them out

would have an effect of weakening of Hamas, we'd hope - they make it easier by not even being in Gaza. Then who is leading the operations in physically Gaza that lead to the 10-7 attack - they appear difficult to ferret out.

The problem is I can see there is a point that destroy Hamas and another group will develop - until there is no Palestinian opposition (as seems to have been the expectation from the beginning), and how is that to be achieved. Every atrocity of one side give the other a victimization to use for justification of the next atrocity. Thus it has gone on and on over the years.

Though what Hamas expected to get out of this attack is hard to fathom. Sure they intend to destroy Israel, but obviously they physically cannot do that and 10-7 did nothing toward that goal for them.

Maybe instead of military aid to Israel, the world could make life great for the Palestinians, enough to mean they will be too comfortable to oppose the existence of Israel? Just brainstorming.