Reply #34: The best chance to prevent that scenario is for the Israeli government

[Ken Burch]

to STOP trying to delay the creation of a Palestinian state and to stop trying to make sure that the West Bank portion of that state is as small as possible.

This means ending the West Bank settlement project FOREVER, apologizing to Palestinians for ever starting it(the Israeli government knew that it was against international law to build settlements on occupied lands), to apologize for the checkpoints and the daily humiliations Palestinians face(remember, 99% of Palestinians have never actually harmed anyone)
and to admit it was wrong to use the phrase "a land without people for a people without land", a phrase that falsely implies that hardly anyone lived in Palestine and that a mass takeover of Palestinian lands was thus no big deal.

It also means negotiating a REAL compensation package and offering real apologies for those who won't get to return to the homes in Israel proper that they were unjustly driven out of.

You can't absolutely guarantee that a Palestinian state will end the fighting, but you CAN absolutely guarantee that continued Israeli obstruction of the creation of a real Palestinian state will keep the fighting going unto everyone's tenth generation.

Nothing Israel is doing now to Gaza is actually succeeding in the goal of PROTECTING Israelis. And insisting on "winning" is just going to make everything worse, since the whole Palestinian narrative has been about avenging repeated humiliations. You don't want the vengeance, you don't humiliate. What's so hard to understand about that?