Don't get me wrong here. What I said is that there are multiple ways in which one can react to this crisis, one of those ways is emotional and automatic. I warned against the fact that this way rarely is the best response long term, especially not in military conflicts. That does not mean that I don't understand the urge to do so.
The systemic dynamic of this conflict is well understood and the fact that Hamas just happens to attack before a major diplomatic breakthrough between Israel and the Saudis is very likely no accident.
On the Gaza strip: Look at a satellite picture of it and remember that there are two million people there, half of which are below 18, of those 74 percent have no job. Roughly half of the population is in poverty. Hamas has been elected with a anti-corruption-agenda in 2014, roughly a decade ago. Our jobless 18 year old was 4 when that happened. You remember who was in power when you where four?
Maybe you don't know but anti-Hamas protests in Gaza are a thing (as one would expect giving the living conditions). They are also brutally beaten down by Hamas as one would equally expect:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/protests-against-hamas-reemerg...
https://apnews.com/article/gaza-hamas-demonstration-israel-b...
Now we are again in a conflict with its own dynamics, where Israel is realiant on international support and Hamas is reliant on building anger in Palestinanand the rest of the arab worls against the Israelis (instead of anger against them for doing a shitty job at governing/treating their citizens bad). If Israel goes in with the flaming sword, they will produce exactly that anger in the rest of the region, which might be even more dangerous than the anger of the Palestinians. If one considers that Hamas has been originally funded by Israel (https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-c...) a good strategy would be to:
- not retaliate harshly, but only in very pointed actions, this way Hamas stays the bad terrorists and Israel retains the international support it needs
- try to flare up resentment of the palestinian population against their betters and avoid things that allow a simple redirection of that anger towards Isreal
- fund existing pro democratic/anti-Hamas movements, help with civil infrastructure, again to guide the resentment at Hamas
- expand the partnership with surrounding arab countries, maybe even bring them on board to help with Gaza as a gesture of good will (this is a stopgap against other arab countries solidarizing with Hamas).
So essentially Israel profits if all arab entities are seperated from Hamas with their own interests, while Hamas profits if it is a simple jews against arabs-conflict.
Now the problem with all of these is, that to a understandably traumatized Israeli public that proposal must feel downright absurd and any government that had to implement it might not survive the next election. (My guess is that a part of military Israel understands basic gametheory dynamic as well, which is why we don't have stronger action).