would you ever be cowed into submitting just because the odds were against you?
The only 'submitting' HAMAS would have to do is leave the Israeli people alone and not fire any more rockets at them. HAMAS has a very clear intent not simply to create a 'Palestinian' state (Islamist theocratic dictatorship) - but to do so on every square inch of what is Israel, in complete defiance of the UN rulings which established the right to a 'Palestinian' state in the first place.
Somehow, I cannot distort reality far enough to justify HAMAS' continuing attempts to destroy its neighboring state. Evidently you can......