The smart thing then would have been not killing those 1400 people.
Hamas surrenders this all ends.
Wrong.
When Zionists who are mostly from Poland and Russia, invade and murder hundreds of thousands of natives, while stealing the homes of 90% of the natives, then any retaliation is more than warranted, in order to get them to stop.
If Hamas surrenders, then the Zionists will just increase their murders and confiscations even more, until the last 10% of Palestine is totally stolen and all the 13 million native Palestinians are either murdered or forced into refugee camps.
What has to happen instead is enough retribution and retaliation to make Israel leave all the illegally confiscated homes and go back to the 1948 UN partition.
Remember, it is Menachim Begin who started all the terrorism.
He first blew up the British peacekeepers in the King David hotel and gunned down Folke Bernadotte, the UN moderator.
He did that so no one could stop his terrorist gangs like Lehi, Stern, and Irgun, from wiping out hundreds of native villages like Deir Yassin.
If anyone read any real history of the region, the Hebrew are insignificant, and not native.
They were sheep herders in the Sinai until after a drought forced them to seek refuge in Egypt for 400 years, they adopted Egyptian weapons and attacked the Land of Canaan.
While the succeeded in genocide in places like Jericho, they became so hated by all the people in the Mideast that after only about 200 years, the Assyrian beat them and drove them out. Every time they tried to attack again, they were beaten and driven out. That was by the Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Seleucids, and Romans. They only ruled for 200 years and have no real history in the Mideast. They are supposed to be following the Rabbinical Diaspora Decree of 160 AD and atone for the sins of arrogance and pride. The Zionists can't even do that right.