At the rate Israel is going? Yes.
Dead men always make peace.
Israel needs to reset the value of hostages in the long run. They can't afford for hostage taking to be viable in the long run. And as long as they are successful militarily; there's no real reason for them to budge from their position.
Netanyahu rejecting the offer outright leads to more death and violence in the short and long term.
Just the short term really. The least deaths in the long term from a game theory perspective is to make the value of the hostages zero or even negative.
Israel's biggest mistake in the hostage back and forth was in the past giving up like 1000 fighters for some hostages.
Instead Israel should occupy like an additional acre of Palestine everytime a hostage/day is taken. Domestically the loss of territory seems to be the only thing that matters to Palestinians, in terms of political support. So they need to take that away.
The ceasefire would have happened in return for some of the hostages. Why would they give them more?
For some of the hostages. Not all of the hostages.
As for using it to tunnel, I would imagine it’s easier and simpler to just use a compressor powered by the tunnel power grid rather than deal with piping and water distribution down to the deep tunnel depths (>50m).
A compressor can be ran off a garden hose.
Some will.
Israeli left wing parties absolutely did pull out in the belief it would lead to peace. Their political coalition didn't have the support to do the same thing in the West Bank. They believed that if peace reigned on the strip, and violence continued in the West Bank it would justify a similar settlement eviction in the WB.
The current right wing coalition would have never approved the 2004 disengagement plan. And the violence that followed it is what brought them to power.
That army was just used offensively against Israel. It must be considered valid to fight it. Those fighters can choose to surrender.
Hey I'm in support of cutting off all stuff to Gaza until they conduct elections, but the UN doesn't agree. Until they are no longer the defacto recipient of all the aid and political power of the Strip; they are responsible for their subjects.
Honestly, they're dying. Israel estimates they've killed 1/4th of their Army. And based on the things that they're trying to smuggle in it (oxygen equipment) seems like they might have a significant amount of their forces stuck underground, caved in.
Citation needed.