So what should Israel have done to not hand control over to Hamas on a "silver platter"? In terms of preventing the Hamas-Fatah war and the initial takeover of

So what should Israel have done to not hand control over to Hamas on a "silver platter"? In terms of preventing the Hamas-Fatah war and the initial takeover of the Strip -- there probably wasn't very much it could have done. But after that juncture -- perhaps if the Prime Minister did not have an explicit policy of keeping them in power for 14 years (in order to "smash the vision Palestinian state into two pieces" as he would boast of his genius plan), backed by allowing $1.8 billion in transfers of Qatari cash from 2012 to 2018 -- that might have helped turn the tide.