To end Gazans' suffering, Hamas can surrender and release their hostages at any time.
Hamas and Iran want to draw Western nations, and their troops, into an asymmetrical ground conflict to bleed the solidarity, treasure, and resolve of the West to remain in the Middle East.
We don't need Middle East oil anymore, (unless Biden buy oil from Iran to replenish the Stategic Petroleum Reserve), so we don't need to be on the ground nor in the region. Let the buyers or suppliers of Persian Gulf oil expend their own blood and treasure to protect freedom of navigation.
America does not need to expend more blood and treasure to provide security to Britain's former protectorates in the Middle East.
Empires die for a reason ... they over-extend themselves in wars of foreign adventure and ignore the homefront.
What did America get for 20 years in Afghanistan? Heroin and more future terrorists.
What did America get for nearly 20 years in Iraq? ISIS/ISIL
There will not be a Pax Americana in the Middle East. It is a mirage that has distracted and beguiled American foreign policy since the late 1940's.