Thank you, you're so thoughtful and graceful despite being a victim of this conflict.

> ...the PLO did put down its arms and the result isn't stellar for them either.

Expulsion, ironically, is already what's happening there, and eventually, they might just get brushed out to Syria and Jordan in another 50 years or so (as the relatively richer Jewish diaspora continues to "buy" Palestinian land). See also: the expulsion of Indians from Burma, Uganda, Tanzania.

> There's no negotiating, no discussion and no compromise.

Hopefully, the Arab League can convince them one way or the other. I believe, by simply accepting the Israeli citizenship, ALL Palestinians stand a chance to fight it out politically, as otherwise, they're anyway "second-rate citizens", regardless of whether they're militant (Gaza) or not (the West Bank).

> They hope this will enrage the surrounding Arab countries enough to trigger an all out regional holy war for the destruction of Israel.

The powers-that-be, surely aren't that naive given the unconditional support Israel has always had from Europe and the Americas. ALL of their Arab neighbors are in no economic position to wage a war, even if there's political will. But they still went ahead with this despicable plan anyway... I am lost, really.

> Israeli bombing civilians is something Israel is doing as part of a Hamas strategy. It's stupid and plain evil.

Some would say (ex: https://jewishcurrents.org/a-textbook-case-of-genocide ... I don't), it is even more sinister to strike down / criminalize any and all forms of protests as antisemitism and pro-genocide, and then cancel the hell out of those who are filmed or photographed. Wonder if this arrogance will be the eventual undoing for the grand designs of the ruling Israeli conservatives.

> Israel said it is investigating it but honestly, they don't do a great job with that.

Not terrorism when people in uniform do it ;)

> Finding the enemy in these situations is nearly impossible.

From Israeli (tech) twitter, the sentiment I get is... all of Gaza is enemy, and couldn't care less if IDF nakba'd them a bit more in to Sinai.

> ...restore faith in a two country solution

If the Palestinians have any sense, they'd fight to get equal rights as citizens of the State of Israel, though I imagine even that would be a long struggle (but if Israel remains a democracy, they stand a real chance to affect governance and bring about meaningful change for their people). I don't think a 2 state solution is viable for the improvised Palestinians with all the fragmentation of villages and cities in Judea and Samaria (unless the settlers pull out; unlikely) and the geographical isolation and irrelevance of Gaza.

> The logistic concept of destroying the buildings is removing places to hide when the ground forces move through the streets.

Looks like this will happen, but I am unsure what the end game for IDF is? Hamas have estimated 40K "fighters" (but lets face it, they're not really a match, they'll be slaughtered if not by the Army, by the Air force; it isn't a fair fight even if its urban war-fare), unless it involves murdering every male Gazan (because of course they're all Hamas) or force them into Egypt? The latter might come to pass if Israel doesn't back down from this war and the West continues to support it. May be that's one part of the answer to the Palestine question.

> How do you unwind that and make peace?

Tear up the farce that was the US-brokered Oslo Accords and the UK-brokered Mandate, and undo the partition. Offer a life of dignity, peace, prosperity, and purpose to peoples who are refugees in their own homeland. Making the Palestinians accept citizenship can be forced by the Arab League. Easier said than done, of course (:

Another way is to disperse the Arabs in to neighboring countries, which Israel is in a position to do (slowly with the West Bank, and swiftly with Gaza). Once that happens, it'll be interesting to watch just how long the Israeli right and far-right can continue to rely on antisemitism (https://www.972mag.com/antisemitism-israel-jews-ihra/) and the dreadful Holocaust to champion their causes (like building the Third Temple, for example). We at least know that the Germans would never ever question anything and can count on the French as well, but can we say the same for other nation states?

"...the struggle to put an end to the Wandering Jew, could not have as its result, the creation of the Wandering Arab."