Okay. Good points.
The Allies killed or imprisoned the higher-ups and more notorious Nazis, but the entire administrative apparatus was composed of superficially pro Nazi individuals and the Allies simply retained these while keeping a large garrison. One must then assume that most of the Nazi lower-downs were either Nazis in name only or eager to trim their sails to accomodate the prevailing wind. Question of fact becomes how much of the Gaza adminstration is similar and how much is hard-core Islamic extremist.
No one knows if the Nazi Germany simile is actually workable. It's simply the best comparison I can think of.
See my concession above. I had in mind the idea of killing or detaining Yahya and his high echelon buddies. The local postmaster and schoolteacher are probably Hamas as well, but are you really going to detain them and put them on trial for war crimes?.... Probably you're just going to put the fear of God (or Yahweh) into them and tell them that the old ways are gone forever.
Right, but "Wipe out Hamas" may or may not mean that to lots of people.
You have people in this very thread (let alone in Israel) saying you can't do what you are suggesting above - you have to kill the local postmaster and schoolteacher as well.
And, as you say, if Israel doesn't like what happens to the administration they install, they reserve the right to invade again.
Which mirrors the whole lead up to October 7.
Israel left, Hamas got elected.
Israel didn't like it, but didn't invade (there was hardly peace, though).
Oct 7 happens, and we have the shit show we are seeing now.
Remember that during the whole time Hamas existed, there were people in Israel saying that Hamas being elected was enough reason to invade again.
As far as they are concerned, Hamas proved them right on October 7, so next time Israel shouldn't wait until October 7 - if a group with any similarity to Hamas was elected, they should be overthrown immediately.
Or you can just not allow Palestinians to elect their own government.
None of this is easy, or simple, or obvious, and no matter how much some people want to argue that if you just kill enough people it will all work out, colour me unconvinced.