There's an inciteful article written by Caroline Glick that provides an assessment of the continuing short term wars that Israel is drawn into.
While Hamas was the primary instigator a decade ago, islamic gee-had is now a rival to Hamas and with Iranian money financing both those islamic terrorist franchises, Caroline, rightly so, lays out a pessimistic look ahead where Israel will have few options for diplomacy.
My read of the situation is that unless and until Israel responds to the continued acts of war waged by the islamic terrorist groups with a decisive victory such that there is no question who is the winner, who is the loser and who dictates terms of the Islamic terrorist surrender, the week long wars will continue.
Caroline Glick: Israel Must Prepare for Next War with Hamas | Breitbart
There are three reasons that every round of Hamas aggression ends so inconclusively. The first is that Hamas, the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, will never accept any meaningful ceasefire with Israel. It is a jihadist group that exists to annihilate Israel. This is why it devotes all of its resources to attacking Israel rather than developing Gaza for the welfare of its residents. As a result, so long as Hamas controls Gaza, it will continue to use the area as a launchpad for attacks against Israel.
The second reason is that there is no alternative to Hamas among the Palestinians. Fatah, Hamas’s main rival and the group that controls the Palestinian Authority, is no match for it. Hamas seized control over Gaza from Fatah in 2007 with little effort. And no other alternative exists, even in theory.
Israelis recognize that the only way to overthrow Hamas is to fight a major war, and o pay a huge price in civilian and military casualties. And then end of the war would leave Israel with no choice but to continue to control Gaza through its military. There is little appetite in Israel for this option. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has
stated repeatedly that he will only employ it if he convinced that there is no other option.