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Suing for peace and being willing to make concessions also ends deaths related to warfare.
If Palestine remains belligerent, they won't be genocided, that's more of Hamas' thing, but I suspect Palestine will eventually be left with no territory.
Perhaps 70+ years of intifada and failed wars against an enemy they can't hope to defeat isn't the best strategy.
Concessions with a genocidal occupier who doesn’t want peace, how?
First of all, high civilian casualties is not genocide. That word means something specific, something Israel is not doing.
Second of all, they do want peace, but it needs to be on their terms, which makes sense given that they hold all the realpolitik cards. I believe they are willing to negotiate but not with terrorist organizations like Hamas or Fatah.
Netanyahu will be voted out soon and I suspect whoever replaces him will be more amenable to terms, unless of course these ongoing attacks on civilians move them more rightward.
The alternative, I suspect, is Palestine loses everything and there is no Palestine. Even unconditional surrender would likely lead to a better outcome than this.