Yes, Israel never fulfilled its commitments under the Camp David Accords, and instead Egypt became an American client state at the cost of many billions from US taxpayers.
Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE recently joined BRICS. The politics of the Middle East are changing rapidly.
A Jewish community peacefully existed in Ottoman-controlled Palestine for hundreds of years. Violence became widespread only after Britain took control after WW1 and conveniently promised the same land to both the native Arab population and Jewish immigrants.
The idea that eliminating Hamas will end the conflicts is ridiculous. Hamas did not even exist until the late 1980s, and the conflict dates back to the 1920s.
ISIS and al qaeda still exist, but they have been eliminated as a viable threat. So it will be with Hamas once Israel is done with them. They won’t go away, but they will no longer pose a viable threat to Israeli civilians.
ISIS and Al Qaeda were created by the US and its allies and still serve as a pretext for US bases throughout the Middle East.
Likewise, Israel needs Hamas as a pretext for continuing to ignore its commitments from Camp David and to support its efforts to expel the population of Gaza and efforts to create a hot war with Iran.
It’s also to repair the economy. The IDF operates on a high/low mix of reservists to professionals. The reservist number is really high (north of 750k last I checked) while the professional brigades number about 150k total. About the same size as the British army.
During a declared war, they do the Finnish strategy. Which is they call up a TON of reservists so that every MOS is filled to capacity with extra to spare for casualties. The issue is that it almost completely shuts down the civilian economy of Israel when they do this.
This has always been an issue for the IDF that previous Israeli leaders always talked about. One stated back in the 70s that “Israel is in a position where it cannot afford to lose a war, but it also cannot truly afford to win a war either.”
So the Israeli strategy playbook tends to be a mixture of both American and European strategy. They combine the shock and awe of an American campaign with clearly limited and easily defined goals of European strategy. The idea is to win a good negotiating position quickly. So that the Israeli economy is only shuttered for a short amount of time.
The British never promised the Arabs land until the promulgation of the Peel Commission. They sold the Jews out because of political expediency. The Jews would complain for a while, maybe even bomb a few outposts. But the British knew that the real enemy of Jewry at that time was Hitler and the Nazis and knew the Jews would ultimately support them over the Germans.
By comparison, the British pointed out the Arabs were unreasonable, biased by their religion, and pretty uncivilized. They were unwilling to consider the good things the Jews had brought to Palestine. Namely development of the land and the Pal Jews paid the majority of the taxes which allowed the Mandate to improve social services for everyone, both Arab and Jew. One only has to look at the infant mortality took a drastic drop during the 1920s and 30s. And the age of death for Arab men increased from an average of 55 to the mid 70s by the time the Revolt broke out.
Like today the Arabs were STUPID as a community. The Jews brought Europeanization, land development, modern farming techniques, the concepts of freedom of speech and the democratic process, and dozens of other positive things to Palestine.
Meanwhile the Arabs rallied around a Nazi called the Grand Mufti and set out to destroy the Jews. Even killing non-radical Arabs (there were a few who literally gave their own lives to protect their Jewish neighbors, but they were few and far between) in the process.
The British supported the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire in WW1. The stated goal in letters from 1915 and 1916 was Arab independence with a single state that would stretch from Aleppo in what is now northwest Syria to Aden at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula.
At the same time a secret Sykes-Picot agreement between the Allied Powers divided Arab areas of the Ottoman Empire between the British and French colonial empires. Only the area that is now Saudi Arabia was left independent. Most of the borders in the Middle East are a result of that
The British issued the Balfour Declaration in 1917, which promised a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
The Peel Commission proposed a partition plan that would establish a small Jewish enclave and an area around Jerusalem under international control with the rest forming an Arab state. The partition was never implemented, and both sided believed they should have full control over the whole area.