As Mark Steyn once noted the Arabs are being very successful using terrorism and suicide bombers in their war with Israel. The last thing they want to do, he said, is abandon schoolgirl suicide bombers and go back to ineffective, primitive weapons like tanks and aircraft.

There is one action that might stop the war without a bloodbath. If everybody stopped giving money to the Palestinians they would either starve or have to abandon terrorism to find paying work. But the Arabs won’t stop funnelling money to the terrorists, for they want to see Israel destroyed and the Jews killed too. There is even less chance of a cutoff of money than there is of Zahal sweeping Gaza clear of Palestinian Arabs.

The terrorists would do that to the Jews in a heartbeat. It will never happen the other way around.

“The only constraints Israelis should reckon with are their own sense of morality, their sense of what is possible militarily, and what the US will support or at least not oppose.”

It is militarily possible to push the Arabs out of Gaza, but the other constraints you mention will hold the IDF back as it has done for decades.

Imagine the citizens of Maine having to live with “Quebec” missiles raining on them from across the border. Unthinkable.

I’m afraid there is no trust to be placed in the Palis at all, nor in any promises they make. If they want war, and they have been waging a peculiarly vicious war that violates international law all this time, they should have their wish. The only constraints Israelis should reckon with are their own sense of morality, their sense of what is possible militarily, and what the US will support or at least not oppose.

Israel needs to come up with a startegy to deal with this bullshit.