When the Palestinian Arabs have ceased terrorism then Israel can cease the operations against terrorists. There is not the slightest evidence that the Palis, PA, Hamas, or any other group (insofar as they are actually distinct from each other), actually want to make peace with Israel. The more Pali fighters and especially leaders the IDF kills, the sooner the Palis will be willing to make peace. That will not happen until so many have been killed that the remainder are sick of Palis being killed. At the present rate that will be years, if not decades.

Economic and political despair might make it come sooner. Cut them off from all outside aid and leave them to work or starve, and tell them there will be no state until they stop practicing terrorism and throw all the terrorists out of their government (Fatah, Hamas, PIJ, and every other scummy terrorist outfit). But the outside world will not do this, for they are not, most of them, interested in stopping the war but rather in seeing Israel defeated, even if they don’t want to see Israel destroyed. And the latter do not have the wit to understand that the one implies the other.