Simple. Abbas retreats to West Bank and divorces his govt from HAMAS elements. Hamas occupies Gaza. US and Israel recognize Abbas govt as the only lawful, legitimate, democratic govt of “Palestine.” US and Israel bomb the hell out of Gaza, destroy HAMAS. Now land negotiating position for two state solution is strengthened for the Israelis, because If the palestinian govt gets ANY of the Gaza, it’d be more than they had (because now defeated HAMAS took it away from them). The Palestinian ability to negotiate without being schizophrenic is strengthened because HAMAS is destroyed, so cooler heads dont have to be constantly looking over their shoulder.
I love it when a plan comes together.
Yes, Hamas on its way to extinction; Fatah more appreciative of Israel and US efforts in their mess.
Great.
The plan unfolds.
I like the idea, too, but I think a few more elements need to happen first.
There needs to be more Hamas-Fatah violence. There are enough Fatah fighters underground in Gaza to do some serious damage until Hamas liquidates them. This liquidation inspires Fatah to do the same to eliminate Hamas elements from the West Bank. I can't see it getting completed for at least several months, there will be Fatah dug deeply into Gaza, and Hamas with terror cells in the West Bank that will be tough to extinguish.
Further, Israel does not have the will to go medieval on Hamas in Gaza right now. Now that Hamas is through with the majority of fighting Fatah (future skirmishes are going to be mere reactions to Fatah guerrilla activity) they will turn towards Israel. They'll be desperate, because international aid will be completely cut off.
Once Israel decides that enough Israeli lives have been lost from tolerating Hamas, then they'll finish depopulating the place, which is what they should have done last summer. They need enough dead Israelis to justify it to the world, and they need to have no Western country have any allies of any kind in Gaza.