How Will this Gaza/Israeli War End?

It is my belief that the war will end with the situation reverting back to the way things were before the war.

On one side we have the Gaza strip whose leaders (knowingly or not acting as surrogates for Iran) won’t be satisfied with anything less than a total destruction of Israel. To them it is not a conflict to be solved by peace with mutual acceptance of each other by the two parties.

The Israeli government has no option other than try to stop Hamas from killing its citizens. It can not allow the indiscriminant slaughter of its civilians. It has to defend its people. How can Israel convince Hamas to become a friendly neighbor? Israel tried by giving up land, providing assistance, and releasing Hamas terrorists. Each attempt at reconciliation was met with a shower of bombs upon its civilian population.

Israel’s moral ethics will not allow it to do what Hamas would gladly do with no mercy. That is the total annihilation of the opposition. The only hope is that the people of the Gaza strip will them selves revolt against Hamas, create a government amiable to having Israel as a neighbor and partner in the Middle East. With the current attitudes I do not see that happening.

The only reason that Israel still exists is its strength and support of the United States. This balance of power is very fragile. When Iran (the puppet master of Hamas, Hizbollah, and others) acquires atomic weapons and the means to deliver them on a large scale, they will (either through surrogates or directly) attack Israel possibly ringing in a new world war. The result of which will decimate many countries in the region. In any case Israel will be lost and its resurrection doubtful in the foreseeable future.