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    It’s stand up for your people or watch them essentially be tortured slowly to death.

    There is another option. Negotiate a viable peace, which they have refused to do repeatedly. Palestine is essentially a defeated state that refuses to acknowledge its loss or make concessions. The only victory condition they are willing to entertain is not viable and their insistence on fighting an unwinnable war, often via guerilla attacks and terrorism, will not end well for them.

    [Hamas’s charter,] article 13, “There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors.”
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas_Charter

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      Gaza’s last election was 17 years ago…

      And Israel both refuses to recognize Hamas as a government, but also refuses to help Gaza hold an election.

      They won’t negotiate with Gaza, which because it was separated from the West Bank by Israel is essentially it’s own government. It’s pretty classic “divide and conquer”.

      And before you say “Israel shouldn’t be involved” then why are they in charge of pretty much every other facet of Gaza?

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        Wikipedia says Palestinian presidential elections were indefinitely postponed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas due to a Hamas-Fatah schism:

        The elections took place amid a tense atmosphere between Fatah and Hamas over the postponement of more major elections that were also scheduled for 2021. It was also reported that voters were angry with the postponement of the presidential election and the legislative election by President Mahmoud Abbas.
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021%E2%80%9322_Palestinian_local_elections


        Israel both refuses to recognize Hamas as a government, but also refuses to help Gaza hold an election. … And before you say “Israel shouldn’t be involved” then why are they in charge of pretty much every other facet of Gaza?

        Because they are an adjacent hostile terrorist state, dedicated to their destruction, that they want to contain via leverage?