Of course. I appreciate the discussion.
And I'm happy to answer the very good questions you posed:
Without question. Hamas leaders exiled or remain? Promises of restrictions on future assassinations, yes or no?
Exiled on pain of imprisonment if they try to return to either Gaza or Israel. Sure, restriction on future assassinations of Hamas leaders, if that's what you mean, is a reasonable peace demand.
Define "administrative protectorate" as you see it.
In other words, Gaza residents would govern in the sense of administering the areas public services, and law enforcement. But one definition of "government" is the entity with a monopoly on legitimate use of force, and that would be Israeli, or some proxy for Israel (which I hope would not be the U.S., but I don't know who else could be trusted.
Appointees would be Israeli, Gazan, foreign, or some combination?
Of the administrators of the government of Gaza? Gazan residents, with proportional representation by all religions in the area. Muslims are capable of good government and peaceful coexistance with non-Muslims, so long as the radical element is eliminated or neutered.
Timeline? Peace treaty? Mutual recognition? Eventual Statehood or Emirate? Connection to PA or separate?
I am no expert on the Palestinian Authority, but they don't seem to have been a success story with the Arabs of Palestine. But I'm open on that since I would guess you have more knowledge of them than I have.
The peace treatly leading to statehood is certainly possible, but first step if for the people of Gaza to realize that killing Jews and destroying Israel is something they should not have as a goal, and if they do, the worst place to try to do it would be Gaza. Because Gaza would be that much under control.
I do not believe that every Arag is Gaza supports Hamas' terrorism, but I sure believe that nearly all of them are afraid of Hamas. No shame on them, Hamas is well financed and ruthless. It would be suicidal to go against them, and those kind of suicidal attacks are what we need to help Palestinians to stop seeing as problem solvers.
Pacify the area - meaning bring peace to it - for a generation. Let that generation see what can be accomplished by working instead of fighting. Then today's early twenties people will be in their forties and perhaps ready to be a self-governing state.
Who will enforce the demilitarization? How will it be enforced? Including: Egyptian border, sea coast, training exchanges with foreign enemies?
It would have to be Israel, heavily backed by peace-loving allies. Europe should pitch in, and not leave the U.S. to do it all. Let's face it, historically speaking, Europe has a debt to the Jews it can never fully repay. But they should try.
As far as training exchanges with foreign enemies, I'm not sure what you mean. Foreign to whom, and which enemies? A reasonable question, I just need clarification.
The thing is, the objection to this would be that the Palestinians would not stand for it. The answer, harsh though it may seem, is that they would have to be forced to stand for it.
Japan is probably a better analogy than Germany. Germans were always going to be relatively easy to govern as an occupied nation. Japanese were as ruthless, devoted, and suicidal as any radical Muslim, but they were brought under manners once the realized we could be just as ruthless and we were more capable.