- De-escalate. Disproportionate violence legitimizes Gaza's resistance, reinforces domestic support for retaliation and signals to third-parties like China and Russia that they need to have a stakeholder in this fight. It also weakens American support for Israeli right-to-defense.
- Negotiate a release of all illegally held hostages and fair international trial for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detainment. Hamas should have no illegal captives, but neither should Israel. Without a solid and agreeable plan towards releasing these captives in a timely matter, neither side has an incentive to stop fighting.
- Establish a good-faith interrim government to rebuild trust with the international community. Defer some power back to the UN as a gesture of goodwill, draw-back from annexed Gaza but draw the line firmly on pre-October 7th borders. Give up on the idea of annexing anything else. In a perfect world they also give Mount Hebron back to Syria, they'll be asking for it soon.
That's easy -- releasing all hostages would de-escalate immediately. Imagine a situation when there was no Oct 7, so Israel would have no reason to de-escalate.
> Negotiate
How to negotiate with one side pre-condition that the other side is all dead and their country does not exist. Now it starts to change, but not because of negotiations, sadly.
> Establish a good-faith interrim government
Sorry don't understand -- Gaza already has the official government -- HAMAS. Since 2007 there was no Israeli forces on Gaza territory (until Oct 7).
Or you mean Israel should've established a different goverment in Gaza? Well taking down governments is already a military objective.
