If you think Hamas is an effective security for Gaza and the West Bank, you're outta your mind. It's the existential threat of becoming enough of a pariah to be forced to trade with North Korea and rely on the Kibbutz economy again. Can't really maintain tritium stockpiles that way.

Hamas is as effective security for Gaza as Likud is for Israel. It would be better off for both parties if each fucked off.

Certainly not Hamas, since they're responsible for what is happening now.

The threat of international condemnation and the less hawkish members of the Israeli government and electorate.

Predictably the rate at which civilians in Gaza are bombed by Israel went up not down after Hamas' acts of terrorism the other week.

Even if you believe that the Israeli government is ontologically evil; serving them up causus belli to bomb and potentially invade Palestinian lands does not constitute "preventing Palestinians from being exterminated", rather it actively helps them hastens the process

You misspelled causing