One way of looking at it would be to note that Israel is doing the palestinians' own dirty work FOR them. Most other countries would just tell them something like
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Hey, we're gonna give you clowns about ten days to do whatever it takes to get Hamas under control and if you don't, we're just gonna bomb ALL of your sorry asses until the problem goes away.
Or, as the one guy said in Alien II, "nuke the place from orbit".