I think you should think that through a little deeper than you have. Let's assume you get the result you are after, Israel attacks, suffers many casualties but manages to subdue Hamas and kill or imprison almost all of them. Hell, let's say they kill or imprison all of them. At what cost to the Palestinians who live in Gaza but are not part of Hamas, some of them are even collaborators with Israeli intelligence? How many of them would have to die or be maimed in order to achive that end? By your words I assume you don't care how many as long as Hamas is destroyed once and for all. But let's take a wild guess. There are supposedly 10-20,000 Hamas terrorists, the IDF is claiming 40,000. Let's split the difference and say 30,000, and the IDF will need to kill or wound at least that many noncombatants before it destroys Hamas completely. I'd bet it would require killing at least that many "innocents" before success is achieved. probably more, many of them being children. So not only does Israel kill or imprison 30,000 Hamas terrorists it also is responsible for 30,000 others who become unfortumate collateral damage. What do you suppose will be the reaction of the friends andfamilies of Hamas terrorists, plus people who were not members but were sympthtic to its cause plus the friends and familes of the innocents who were sacrificed on behalf of an Israeli victory? I think a great many of them will become filled with rage. And I would think a successor to Hamas would spring up out of those people. In a very short time there would be a new terrorist threat and your desired tactic will have achieved nothing but the murder of tens of thousands of people, the maiming of thousands more, andan even more embittered Palestinian population, not to mention the new hatred the families and friends of those Israeli soldiers who are killed as well. I just don't think your solution is a good one. It may be the worst one of them all.