Actually, Pat, I'm going to call you down on this (very slightly and very gently.) My comment wasn't about Palestinian refugees. It was about ALL people whose lives have been upended by the conflict. That includes the people in Gaza AND the people in Israel whose homes were targeted by rocket attacks. They are refugees too. The memories of this conflict will reverberate through subsequent generations and I see no end of it. The IDF might actually eliminate Hamas. But one generation from now, polarized and traumatized children on both sides will grow up with hatred for "the other side" that destroyed their homes and killed their grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and parents. That memory of hate is unending. I know why the Israelis want to eliminate Hamas. But they can't eliminate memory. This is a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation. In point of fact, eliminating Hamas will only earn a generation's worth of peace until the next generation of refugees become adults. I might not be around for that next generation, but if my prediction survives in some archive, someone will either laugh at me or cry with me for the generation of kids who have known today's war all too intimately.
I'm no genius. I have no solution. I only know that a short-term win is not going to solve a long-term problem.