When the lives of your children are on the line, it is hard to make plans for after the war. Yet international support for Israel is conditional. Partly it rests on keeping civilian deaths to a minimum, which is why Hamas does its best to maximise casualties. And partly it rests on reassurances that Israel is not intending to reoccupy Gaza. For this and other reasons, the Biden administration has been pressuring Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu – whose cabinet includes several hardline