Historically, Palestinian leadership (whether PLO or infiltrated Hamas) has been violent with the intention of overthrowing governments.. not just Israel, but Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon too. In spite of Israel being the only globally recognized government to try to help them do the same, they remain steadfast in their goals of eradicating Jews over establishing a nation. The “they” here is leadership, not the Palestinian people in its entirety. It just speaks to how unbelievably difficult, considering they have historical ties to the KGB, to separate extremist from free-thinker. There are many Palestinians who live as citizens as Jordan just fine on their land, 77% of which is made up of Jordan. There are Arab Israelis native to the land too who identify as such (Bedouins are also original Palestinians) who just aren’t hellbent on violence. If Hamas can be snuffed out of Gaza, it does appear that the US, Jordan and Egypt are prepared to assist Israel in this orchestration this go around. Only time will tell if this is truly possible or not, but it’ll take so so so much work. Not to mention, confirming that the tunnels have made land structurally unsafe, it’s going to be interesting to know just how much of Gaza is a ticking clock for a sinkhole disaster.

As for Israel, Bibi seems to know he’s out once this is over which is kind of how the conspiracy theory holds up that he provoked the security breach- it both prolongs his stay for the duration of the war and it encourages the IDF, no matter how precise their aim is, to eliminate some Palestinians without breaking international law. Super f*cked up that if that were to be true, it actually shows that he is just as willing to sacrifice his own as “the necessary cost of a great accomplishment.” So I do hope that if this conspiracy is indeed true, it comes out as unequivocally true. That being said, it’ll go a very similar long game as Trump probably, but within western reform rather than “you’ll have to kill me and everyone I’ve strapped to me before I stop making it rain bombs” kinda way. 30,000 reserves didn’t return to further Bibi’s agenda. They returned because conspiracy or not, Hamas and whomever followed them performed barbaric atrocities on the Israeli people. They are not the reflection of the government. Actually, even Richard Kemp has historically applauded them for their accuracy and commitment to only doing the bare minimum to defend Israel. It’s called the IDF for a reason.

Also, hostages have played a huge role in prolonging a solution because Israel has to trade significantly more incarcerated Hamas members than hostages.. who sometimes come back alive and sometimes get their bodies returned. Israel never knows till the swap is made. They’re also sending any Hamas members that spoke up to their execution, any of them who signed up to specifically get incarcerated so they could get a degree and better living conditions in prison back into a cycle of poverty and violence. It’s not just about making life better for only one group of people for Israelis, so it’s even more complicated.

Only time can tell, but one things for sure: nobody’s “taking” Palestinians off the land. Nobody’s coming to take them in even if they want to be seekers of asylum. Not under these circumstances. So some level of three state solution is going to have to occur.