Actually, I think it would be better that instead of a short term military campaign, that Israel adopt a different long term strategy.
Muslims are obsessive about territorial conquest by any means. It is the one way a Muslim can demonstrate to other Muslims that they are a “righteous” Muslim. Conversely, the worst and most shameful thing a Muslim can do is to lose land to infidels. To do so causes bitter humiliation.
Importantly, land eclipses *all* other things. Including prosperity, peace, happiness, family, and the thousand other things that Jews and Christians like about life.
But getting land is a form of greed. Thus it is endless and never satisfied. They want *all* land, everywhere. So offering them *some* land just whets their appetite.
Thus, a policy of “land for peace” is not just ineffective, it makes their behavior worse.
So the first thing the Israelis should do is to make a policy that they will never, ever, surrender *any* land to Muslims, no matter what is threatened or promised.
But then, the new policy: That with each and every attack against Jews and Israel, the Muslims will *forfeit* some land. It doesn’t have to be a whole lot. Even a few acres of empty desert would drive the Muslims bonkers.
They would threaten, offer anything (lying of course), and go begging to other countries to make Israel give them that land back!
And the other countries would be puzzled as to why a few acres of empty desert mean so much to the Muslims, so they would undoubtedly ask, or even demand, that Israel give it back, “because it is meaningless”.
But Israel must be firm. No, nothing, not. It is forfeit, *forever*. It may not be Jewish land, but it is no longer Muslim land. And it will never be traded or offered to Muslims for any reason.
Oddly enough, this is so traumatizing to Muslims, that under the threat of losing more land, they may actually agree to peace. But not ever in exchange for the land they lost, but only to keep from losing even more land.
Since they are an inherently violent and hateful people, they might eventually lose all of the Gaza Strip. And if that is the case, so be it.
The only thing about that is that it’s ISRAEL who wants the land to be given to the Palestinians, for a Palestinian state. Israel wants that more than the Palestinians do ... :-) ...
The reason why is if Israel incorporates all that land into the nation of Israel the numbers of Muslims that are there will turn Israel instantly into an ARAB STATE.
That’s what Israel wants to avoid at all costs and that’s why Israel does NOT WANT the land where millions of Arabs are residing right now.