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The word you're looking for is"war".
Israel has done other things, up to and including withdrawing both military and civilian populations from the area. Result: Gaza Palestinians elect Hamas to represent them and step up the attacks. The Palestinians are going to hate them and attack them no matter what; the best the Israelis can do (short of actual genocide) is degrade their ability to do so.
If you're stuck in a permanent war against an enemy you profoundly outclass militarily, economically, culturally, and politically, at a certain point you are responsible for the ongoing outcomes.
I should be clear, I am no defender of the Palestinians, they are absolutely awful insane irrational neighbors. I am deeply thankful I live nowhere near a Muslim theocracy. While I rate the Israeli reconciliation attempts as "mediocre at best", they have tried, both sides are profoundly irrational at this point.
I think the answer to this is some flavor of Marshall plan + perhaps a rather invasive CCP-style police state to give young Palestinians a taste/goal of a better life while ensuring that the smallest possible % of GDP is turned into ballistic rockets. Also things like "not constantly encroaching on the West Bank with settler communities" would probably help as that rather calls into question the good faith nature of one of the sides.
Certainly you are not responsible for the enemy. They're the enemy.
You cannot have a Marshall plan until the enemy surrenders. They have not and will not. I do not believe Israel has the capacity to take them over and completely remake their culture, nor would the "international community" accept them doing so.
This is getting mildly circular, so if you'd like the last word after this comment I am happy to grant you it.
In basically every other adversarial scenario I agree with you. However given the vast power differential and background of this conflict, unfortunately Israel is somewhat responsible. Given they frequently interfere with Gaza/West Banks Sovereignty, borders, etc.
You break it, you bought it. With great power comes great responsibility.
Israel exercises massive power over the Palestinians, and frequently blows their shit up. Thus, they have found themselves in the unfortunate situation of being responsible for their enemies in some capacity, which is a lose/lose.
I deeply fear you're correct in this. I genuinely don't see any other viable long term solution though.
Gaza can't stop being a suffering factory unless it develops economically. As long as it continues to be a suffering factory it will generate large amounts of angry young men who hate Israel. Israel can't let Gaza develop unless it's confident a measurable % of Gazan GDP won't become rockets. If Israel can't control Gaza's development, Gaza is doomed to the status quo, and the suffering factory will continue to generate Oct 7 events every ~20 years.
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