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Hamas will not surrender. Just as the VC didn't surrender. Just as the Taliban didn't surrender. Not going to happen.

Israel has seriously degraded Hamas, but they will continue as long as the idea lives.

Sure, but it's hardly certain the idea will live. History is littered with rebellions, separatist movements, independence efforts, and insurgencies. Some succeed, some do not. You can destroy a rebellion/insurgency by killing enough of its leaders and members. That almost never happens if the party seeking to destroy the rebellion/insurgency is from far away - but it happens all the time if all the parties to the conflict are all together in the same place.

The "idea" behind Hamas is that Israel has to be destroyed and the Jews all killed or expelled from Muslim lands. Unless you think that Hamas will succeed in that effort, then either there will be fighting forever or the idea will die. Hopefully the latter.

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