Gaza War, Part 3

[Anonymous]

I just want this senile old man out of the White House, voting for him is the biggest mistake I ever made.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Ex-IDF ops chief: Rafah invasion PM readying to approve would be worst decision made since war’s outbreak
Israel Ziv, a retired general and former IDF operations chief, speaks out against a potential Israeli invasion of Rafah during Channel 12’s Friday night news panel.

Ziv asserts that the remaining Hamas battalions in the southernmost city of Gaza do not pose an existential threat to Israel, whereas the hostage deal Israel risks forgoing by entering Rafah would amount to an existential threat to the lives of the Israeli hostages.

Ziv argues that even in the best case scenario where Israel enters Rafah, manages to find and kill Hamas leader Sinwar and recover the hostages, there will be no “total victory,” as promised by Netanyahu.

On the other hand, such an invasion will be very bloody, further isolate Jerusalem diplomatically and leave Israel without anyone to turn over Gaza to once the operation is over, Ziv says.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/ex-idf-ops-chief-israel-ziv-rafah-invasion-pm-readying-to-approve-would-be-worst-decision-made-since-wars-outbreak/

Get ready. It’s coming. IDF civilians casualty estimates 40,000-80,000..yipes! That is way over Biden’s 30,000 more number.

If Hamas simply released the remaining hostages and returned the bodies of those they've already murdered, the war would be over today. But they won't. Hamas is only interested in violence and death. It's too bad that this is what most Palestinians support. It makes peace impossible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Ex-IDF ops chief: Rafah invasion PM readying to approve would be worst decision made since war’s outbreak
Israel Ziv, a retired general and former IDF operations chief, speaks out against a potential Israeli invasion of Rafah during Channel 12’s Friday night news panel.

Ziv asserts that the remaining Hamas battalions in the southernmost city of Gaza do not pose an existential threat to Israel, whereas the hostage deal Israel risks forgoing by entering Rafah would amount to an existential threat to the lives of the Israeli hostages.

Ziv argues that even in the best case scenario where Israel enters Rafah, manages to find and kill Hamas leader Sinwar and recover the hostages, there will be no “total victory,” as promised by Netanyahu.

On the other hand, such an invasion will be very bloody, further isolate Jerusalem diplomatically and leave Israel without anyone to turn over Gaza to once the operation is over, Ziv says.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/ex-idf-ops-chief-israel-ziv-rafah-invasion-pm-readying-to-approve-would-be-worst-decision-made-since-wars-outbreak/

Get ready. It’s coming. IDF civilians casualty estimates 40,000-80,000..yipes! That is way over Biden’s 30,000 more number.

There is still a chance that it is a (bad) negotiating tactic. I hope and pray for Israel's sake that it does not do this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Ex-IDF ops chief: Rafah invasion PM readying to approve would be worst decision made since war’s outbreak
Israel Ziv, a retired general and former IDF operations chief, speaks out against a potential Israeli invasion of Rafah during Channel 12’s Friday night news panel.

Ziv asserts that the remaining Hamas battalions in the southernmost city of Gaza do not pose an existential threat to Israel, whereas the hostage deal Israel risks forgoing by entering Rafah would amount to an existential threat to the lives of the Israeli hostages.

Ziv argues that even in the best case scenario where Israel enters Rafah, manages to find and kill Hamas leader Sinwar and recover the hostages, there will be no “total victory,” as promised by Netanyahu.

On the other hand, such an invasion will be very bloody, further isolate Jerusalem diplomatically and leave Israel without anyone to turn over Gaza to once the operation is over, Ziv says.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/ex-idf-ops-chief-israel-ziv-rafah-invasion-pm-readying-to-approve-would-be-worst-decision-made-since-wars-outbreak/

Get ready. It’s coming. IDF civilians casualty estimates 40,000-80,000..yipes! That is way over Biden’s 30,000 more number.

No, it wouldn't. Why should anyone accept Hamas as the leadership in Gaza?
If Hamas simply released the remaining hostages and returned the bodies of those they've already murdered, the war would be over today. But they won't. Hamas is only interested in violence and death. It's too bad that this is what most Palestinians support. It makes peace impossible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Ex-IDF ops chief: Rafah invasion PM readying to approve would be worst decision made since war’s outbreak
Israel Ziv, a retired general and former IDF operations chief, speaks out against a potential Israeli invasion of Rafah during Channel 12’s Friday night news panel.

Ziv asserts that the remaining Hamas battalions in the southernmost city of Gaza do not pose an existential threat to Israel, whereas the hostage deal Israel risks forgoing by entering Rafah would amount to an existential threat to the lives of the Israeli hostages.

Ziv argues that even in the best case scenario where Israel enters Rafah, manages to find and kill Hamas leader Sinwar and recover the hostages, there will be no “total victory,” as promised by Netanyahu.

On the other hand, such an invasion will be very bloody, further isolate Jerusalem diplomatically and leave Israel without anyone to turn over Gaza to once the operation is over, Ziv says.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/ex-idf-ops-chief-israel-ziv-rafah-invasion-pm-readying-to-approve-would-be-worst-decision-made-since-wars-outbreak/

Get ready. It’s coming. IDF civilians casualty estimates 40,000-80,000..yipes! That is way over Biden’s 30,000 more number.

If Hamas simply released the remaining hostages and returned the bodies of those they've already murdered, the war would be over today. But they won't. Hamas is only interested in violence and death. It's too bad that this is what most Palestinians support. It makes peace impossible.

+1

You would think by now that the terrorists might change tactics since whatever they are doing has led to the flattening of Gaza. Yet they double down on vioence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Ex-IDF ops chief: Rafah invasion PM readying to approve would be worst decision made since war’s outbreak
Israel Ziv, a retired general and former IDF operations chief, speaks out against a potential Israeli invasion of Rafah during Channel 12’s Friday night news panel.

Ziv asserts that the remaining Hamas battalions in the southernmost city of Gaza do not pose an existential threat to Israel, whereas the hostage deal Israel risks forgoing by entering Rafah would amount to an existential threat to the lives of the Israeli hostages.

Ziv argues that even in the best case scenario where Israel enters Rafah, manages to find and kill Hamas leader Sinwar and recover the hostages, there will be no “total victory,” as promised by Netanyahu.

On the other hand, such an invasion will be very bloody, further isolate Jerusalem diplomatically and leave Israel without anyone to turn over Gaza to once the operation is over, Ziv says.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/ex-idf-ops-chief-israel-ziv-rafah-invasion-pm-readying-to-approve-would-be-worst-decision-made-since-wars-outbreak/

Get ready. It’s coming. IDF civilians casualty estimates 40,000-80,000..yipes! That is way over Biden’s 30,000 more number.

If Hamas simply released the remaining hostages and returned the bodies of those they've already murdered, the war would be over today. But they won't. Hamas is only interested in violence and death. It's too bad that this is what most Palestinians support. It makes peace impossible.

I agree with this 1000%. Why would Israel agree to a ceasefire without that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Ex-IDF ops chief: Rafah invasion PM readying to approve would be worst decision made since war’s outbreak
Israel Ziv, a retired general and former IDF operations chief, speaks out against a potential Israeli invasion of Rafah during Channel 12’s Friday night news panel.

Ziv asserts that the remaining Hamas battalions in the southernmost city of Gaza do not pose an existential threat to Israel, whereas the hostage deal Israel risks forgoing by entering Rafah would amount to an existential threat to the lives of the Israeli hostages.

Ziv argues that even in the best case scenario where Israel enters Rafah, manages to find and kill Hamas leader Sinwar and recover the hostages, there will be no “total victory,” as promised by Netanyahu.

On the other hand, such an invasion will be very bloody, further isolate Jerusalem diplomatically and leave Israel without anyone to turn over Gaza to once the operation is over, Ziv says.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/ex-idf-ops-chief-israel-ziv-rafah-invasion-pm-readying-to-approve-would-be-worst-decision-made-since-wars-outbreak/

Get ready. It’s coming. IDF civilians casualty estimates 40,000-80,000..yipes! That is way over Biden’s 30,000 more number.

If Hamas simply released the remaining hostages and returned the bodies of those they've already murdered, the war would be over today. But they won't. Hamas is only interested in violence and death. It's too bad that this is what most Palestinians support. It makes peace impossible.

Israel killed the Israeli hostages in Gaza Why would Hamas kill the hostages after spending money and keeping them for months? They have more motive to keep them alive as bargaining Chips for Palestinian prisoners. Israel knows this which is why they killed the hostages. They don’t want Hamas to have a bargaining chip.

Hamas made a mistake by releasing most of the Israeli hostages back in December. No ceasefire ever came. Instead, Israel started shelling Rafah.

Israel also made a mistake by waiting too long to enter Gaza in October. The hostages wouldve been easier to find back then.

What exactly does Israel realistically expect now that we are in May? They’ve been bombing every home to the ground and flattening everything in sight. What hostages do they expect to still be alive?

[Anonymous]

Both sides are stupid and failed at this war strategically on every end.

Israel never cared about the hostages and Hamas never cared about the Gazans

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Ex-IDF ops chief: Rafah invasion PM readying to approve would be worst decision made since war’s outbreak
Israel Ziv, a retired general and former IDF operations chief, speaks out against a potential Israeli invasion of Rafah during Channel 12’s Friday night news panel.

Ziv asserts that the remaining Hamas battalions in the southernmost city of Gaza do not pose an existential threat to Israel, whereas the hostage deal Israel risks forgoing by entering Rafah would amount to an existential threat to the lives of the Israeli hostages.

Ziv argues that even in the best case scenario where Israel enters Rafah, manages to find and kill Hamas leader Sinwar and recover the hostages, there will be no “total victory,” as promised by Netanyahu.

On the other hand, such an invasion will be very bloody, further isolate Jerusalem diplomatically and leave Israel without anyone to turn over Gaza to once the operation is over, Ziv says.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/ex-idf-ops-chief-israel-ziv-rafah-invasion-pm-readying-to-approve-would-be-worst-decision-made-since-wars-outbreak/

Get ready. It’s coming. IDF civilians casualty estimates 40,000-80,000..yipes! That is way over Biden’s 30,000 more number.

If Hamas simply released the remaining hostages and returned the bodies of those they've already murdered, the war would be over today. But they won't. Hamas is only interested in violence and death. It's too bad that this is what most Palestinians support. It makes peace impossible.

I agree with this 1000%. Why would Israel agree to a ceasefire without that?

Israel (Bibi) has explicitly said that it would not be over if that happened. Why would Hamas agree to a ceasefire without a guarantee that this will end?

That is the main hang up with the negotiations right now. Both sides have demanded the type of iron clad end game guarantees that don't tend to happen during negotiations like this. It is no wonder that almost all of the secondary parties to this negotiation are wanting to wipe their hands of both of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Ex-IDF ops chief: Rafah invasion PM readying to approve would be worst decision made since war’s outbreak
Israel Ziv, a retired general and former IDF operations chief, speaks out against a potential Israeli invasion of Rafah during Channel 12’s Friday night news panel.

Ziv asserts that the remaining Hamas battalions in the southernmost city of Gaza do not pose an existential threat to Israel, whereas the hostage deal Israel risks forgoing by entering Rafah would amount to an existential threat to the lives of the Israeli hostages.

Ziv argues that even in the best case scenario where Israel enters Rafah, manages to find and kill Hamas leader Sinwar and recover the hostages, there will be no “total victory,” as promised by Netanyahu.

On the other hand, such an invasion will be very bloody, further isolate Jerusalem diplomatically and leave Israel without anyone to turn over Gaza to once the operation is over, Ziv says.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/ex-idf-ops-chief-israel-ziv-rafah-invasion-pm-readying-to-approve-would-be-worst-decision-made-since-wars-outbreak/

Get ready. It’s coming. IDF civilians casualty estimates 40,000-80,000..yipes! That is way over Biden’s 30,000 more number.

If Hamas simply released the remaining hostages and returned the bodies of those they've already murdered, the war would be over today. But they won't. Hamas is only interested in violence and death. It's too bad that this is what most Palestinians support. It makes peace impossible.

Hamas is doing what Israel does to them . You don’t care when Palestinian are taken prisoner without charge as young as five years old for throwing a stone at an Israeli tank or saying Free Palestine . The IDF can use excessive violence and force without repercussion to people like you because Palestinian lives do not matter at all . A carpetbagging settler from Brooklyn can take up shop in a home of a West Bank farmer and take all their belongings and force them out of their home and they should just shut up and deal .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Ex-IDF ops chief: Rafah invasion PM readying to approve would be worst decision made since war’s outbreak
Israel Ziv, a retired general and former IDF operations chief, speaks out against a potential Israeli invasion of Rafah during Channel 12’s Friday night news panel.

Ziv asserts that the remaining Hamas battalions in the southernmost city of Gaza do not pose an existential threat to Israel, whereas the hostage deal Israel risks forgoing by entering Rafah would amount to an existential threat to the lives of the Israeli hostages.

Ziv argues that even in the best case scenario where Israel enters Rafah, manages to find and kill Hamas leader Sinwar and recover the hostages, there will be no “total victory,” as promised by Netanyahu.

On the other hand, such an invasion will be very bloody, further isolate Jerusalem diplomatically and leave Israel without anyone to turn over Gaza to once the operation is over, Ziv says.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/ex-idf-ops-chief-israel-ziv-rafah-invasion-pm-readying-to-approve-would-be-worst-decision-made-since-wars-outbreak/

Get ready. It’s coming. IDF civilians casualty estimates 40,000-80,000..yipes! That is way over Biden’s 30,000 more number.

If Hamas simply released the remaining hostages and returned the bodies of those they've already murdered, the war would be over today. But they won't. Hamas is only interested in violence and death. It's too bad that this is what most Palestinians support. It makes peace impossible.

I agree with this 1000%. Why would Israel agree to a ceasefire without that?

Israel (Bibi) has explicitly said that it would not be over if that happened. Why would Hamas agree to a ceasefire without a guarantee that this will end?

That is the main hang up with the negotiations right now. Both sides have demanded the type of iron clad end game guarantees that don't tend to happen during negotiations like this. It is no wonder that almost all of the secondary parties to this negotiation are wanting to wipe their hands of both of them.

The negotiations will fail because both sides got blindsided whenever they tried to be soft or nice to the other. There’s absolutely zero trust right now on either side. Netanyahu feels he was nice to Hamas by helping them over the PA government in Ramallah and he got backstabbed. Hamas feels backstabbed by Israel because when they softened in 2017 and said they acknowledged 2 state solution, Netanyahu expanded settlements by 60% and sided with some extremist anti Arab parties to create the most right wing government in Israel’s history .

Both sides don’t see the value in being the “bigger person”.

I can’t say that I blame either of them .

I think the US puts too much on negotiation. There is not going to be a negotiation here . Let them keep on. Eventually, the war will leave Gaza and enter Israel from the West Bank. That seems to be what Israel wants so be it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Ex-IDF ops chief: Rafah invasion PM readying to approve would be worst decision made since war’s outbreak
Israel Ziv, a retired general and former IDF operations chief, speaks out against a potential Israeli invasion of Rafah during Channel 12’s Friday night news panel.

Ziv asserts that the remaining Hamas battalions in the southernmost city of Gaza do not pose an existential threat to Israel, whereas the hostage deal Israel risks forgoing by entering Rafah would amount to an existential threat to the lives of the Israeli hostages.

Ziv argues that even in the best case scenario where Israel enters Rafah, manages to find and kill Hamas leader Sinwar and recover the hostages, there will be no “total victory,” as promised by Netanyahu.

On the other hand, such an invasion will be very bloody, further isolate Jerusalem diplomatically and leave Israel without anyone to turn over Gaza to once the operation is over, Ziv says.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/ex-idf-ops-chief-israel-ziv-rafah-invasion-pm-readying-to-approve-would-be-worst-decision-made-since-wars-outbreak/

Get ready. It’s coming. IDF civilians casualty estimates 40,000-80,000..yipes! That is way over Biden’s 30,000 more number.

IDF has motive to inflate numbers to make their war seem more successful than it really was for them. They left Rafah with nothing . No leads, no scoops.

I am the “Hamas is in the Idf” poster. I truly believe they have moles. There’s no way the IDF couldn’t find Hamas in tiny Gaza Strip in six months unless they killed them all which mean hostages are all dead or they have inside moles giving them the lowdown on where the IdF is heading next

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Ex-IDF ops chief: Rafah invasion PM readying to approve would be worst decision made since war’s outbreak
Israel Ziv, a retired general and former IDF operations chief, speaks out against a potential Israeli invasion of Rafah during Channel 12’s Friday night news panel.

Ziv asserts that the remaining Hamas battalions in the southernmost city of Gaza do not pose an existential threat to Israel, whereas the hostage deal Israel risks forgoing by entering Rafah would amount to an existential threat to the lives of the Israeli hostages.

Ziv argues that even in the best case scenario where Israel enters Rafah, manages to find and kill Hamas leader Sinwar and recover the hostages, there will be no “total victory,” as promised by Netanyahu.

On the other hand, such an invasion will be very bloody, further isolate Jerusalem diplomatically and leave Israel without anyone to turn over Gaza to once the operation is over, Ziv says.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/ex-idf-ops-chief-israel-ziv-rafah-invasion-pm-readying-to-approve-would-be-worst-decision-made-since-wars-outbreak/

Get ready. It’s coming. IDF civilians casualty estimates 40,000-80,000..yipes! That is way over Biden’s 30,000 more number.

If Hamas simply released the remaining hostages and returned the bodies of those they've already murdered, the war would be over today. But they won't. Hamas is only interested in violence and death. It's too bad that this is what most Palestinians support. It makes peace impossible.

I agree with this 1000%. Why would Israel agree to a ceasefire without that?

Israel (Bibi) has explicitly said that it would not be over if that happened. Why would Hamas agree to a ceasefire without a guarantee that this will end?

That is the main hang up with the negotiations right now. Both sides have demanded the type of iron clad end game guarantees that don't tend to happen during negotiations like this. It is no wonder that almost all of the secondary parties to this negotiation are wanting to wipe their hands of both of them.

The negotiations will fail because both sides got blindsided whenever they tried to be soft or nice to the other. There’s absolutely zero trust right now on either side. Netanyahu feels he was nice to Hamas by helping them over the PA government in Ramallah and he got backstabbed. Hamas feels backstabbed by Israel because when they softened in 2017 and said they acknowledged 2 state solution, Netanyahu expanded settlements by 60% and sided with some extremist anti Arab parties to create the most right wing government in Israel’s history .

Both sides don’t see the value in being the “bigger person”.

I can’t say that I blame either of them .

I think the US puts too much on negotiation. There is not going to be a negotiation here . Let them keep on. Eventually, the war will leave Gaza and enter Israel from the West Bank. That seems to be what Israel wants so be it

I agree but, at the same time, I don't want to see either Israel become a pariah nation or thousands of more Palestinian civilians killed. Then again I'm neither Bibi nor Sinwar both of whom seem to be relishing that seemingly inevitable outcome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Ex-IDF ops chief: Rafah invasion PM readying to approve would be worst decision made since war’s outbreak
Israel Ziv, a retired general and former IDF operations chief, speaks out against a potential Israeli invasion of Rafah during Channel 12’s Friday night news panel.

Ziv asserts that the remaining Hamas battalions in the southernmost city of Gaza do not pose an existential threat to Israel, whereas the hostage deal Israel risks forgoing by entering Rafah would amount to an existential threat to the lives of the Israeli hostages.

Ziv argues that even in the best case scenario where Israel enters Rafah, manages to find and kill Hamas leader Sinwar and recover the hostages, there will be no “total victory,” as promised by Netanyahu.

On the other hand, such an invasion will be very bloody, further isolate Jerusalem diplomatically and leave Israel without anyone to turn over Gaza to once the operation is over, Ziv says.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/ex-idf-ops-chief-israel-ziv-rafah-invasion-pm-readying-to-approve-would-be-worst-decision-made-since-wars-outbreak/

Get ready. It’s coming. IDF civilians casualty estimates 40,000-80,000..yipes! That is way over Biden’s 30,000 more number.

If Hamas simply released the remaining hostages and returned the bodies of those they've already murdered, the war would be over today. But they won't. Hamas is only interested in violence and death. It's too bad that this is what most Palestinians support. It makes peace impossible.

+1

You would think by now that the terrorists might change tactics since whatever they are doing has led to the flattening of Gaza. Yet they double down on vioence.

Yes the Israeli should look at how their terror campaign in Gaza has failed. The IDF itself says Hamas openly operates throughout Gaza. The number of rockets fired in to Israel from Gaza has increased to an all time daily record and those rockets are not coming from Rafah. Also Hamas controls all the food and supplies once those enter Gaza. This is what the IDF says. It must 100 x worst.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Ex-IDF ops chief: Rafah invasion PM readying to approve would be worst decision made since war’s outbreak
Israel Ziv, a retired general and former IDF operations chief, speaks out against a potential Israeli invasion of Rafah during Channel 12’s Friday night news panel.

Ziv asserts that the remaining Hamas battalions in the southernmost city of Gaza do not pose an existential threat to Israel, whereas the hostage deal Israel risks forgoing by entering Rafah would amount to an existential threat to the lives of the Israeli hostages.

Ziv argues that even in the best case scenario where Israel enters Rafah, manages to find and kill Hamas leader Sinwar and recover the hostages, there will be no “total victory,” as promised by Netanyahu.

On the other hand, such an invasion will be very bloody, further isolate Jerusalem diplomatically and leave Israel without anyone to turn over Gaza to once the operation is over, Ziv says.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/ex-idf-ops-chief-israel-ziv-rafah-invasion-pm-readying-to-approve-would-be-worst-decision-made-since-wars-outbreak/

Get ready. It’s coming. IDF civilians casualty estimates 40,000-80,000..yipes! That is way over Biden’s 30,000 more number.

If Hamas simply released the remaining hostages and returned the bodies of those they've already murdered, the war would be over today. But they won't. Hamas is only interested in violence and death. It's too bad that this is what most Palestinians support. It makes peace impossible.

I agree with this 1000%. Why would Israel agree to a ceasefire without that?

Israel (Bibi) has explicitly said that it would not be over if that happened. Why would Hamas agree to a ceasefire without a guarantee that this will end?

That is the main hang up with the negotiations right now. Both sides have demanded the type of iron clad end game guarantees that don't tend to happen during negotiations like this. It is no wonder that almost all of the secondary parties to this negotiation are wanting to wipe their hands of both of them.

The negotiations will fail because both sides got blindsided whenever they tried to be soft or nice to the other. There’s absolutely zero trust right now on either side. Netanyahu feels he was nice to Hamas by helping them over the PA government in Ramallah and he got backstabbed. Hamas feels backstabbed by Israel because when they softened in 2017 and said they acknowledged 2 state solution, Netanyahu expanded settlements by 60% and sided with some extremist anti Arab parties to create the most right wing government in Israel’s history .

Both sides don’t see the value in being the “bigger person”.

I can’t say that I blame either of them .

I think the US puts too much on negotiation. There is not going to be a negotiation here . Let them keep on. Eventually, the war will leave Gaza and enter Israel from the West Bank. That seems to be what Israel wants so be it

It won't expand from the West Bank. It was never militarized like Gaza was. There is no weapons flow from Jordan into the West Bank as there was from Egypt into Gaza. Palestinian militants in the West Bank do not have the means to invade Israel and engage in a sustained war with the IDF. Hamas, due to their support from Iran, were able to launch a war with Israel. Which is why Gaza has been flattened and the West Bank remains standing.

I don't think this war expands at all. Hezbollah in Lebanon is standing fast. That little exchange between Iran and Israel a couple of weeks ago was nothing more than a momentary distraction. The Sunni Arabs in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia despise the Palestinians for all sorts of historical reasons. And Palestinians in Gaza choosing to align themselves with the Shi'a theocracy in Iran has not endeared them with the Arab world. In short, due to their bad decision making, Palestinians in Gaza have no allies, which means this war won't grow.

I don't know what the endgame is. Besides complete devastation for Palestinians in Gaza. It will eventually become some kind of Arab League/Israel bastard child dependent territory. No one will ever trust Palestinians in Gaza for generations after this, so there is no chance for autonomous rule, much less independence, for the foreseeable future. But hopefully once Netanyahu is gone there will be a better outcome for the West Bank that will include the removal of the settlers and a sustainable political solution.