@Relic
You are really disconnected from the reality of what's really going on.
The reality of what is going on is that two States have been in a multi-decade long battle, with ancestral roots of conflict that far pre-date that, for control over territory of which they both have historical claims. The result of that struggle has been such that one of the States has grown strong and capable of dominating the other. Meanwhile, the State with lesser power continues to struggle for it's freedom, but only on its own terms, and not without conceding territory, etc to the larger power that has no interest in giving that land back.
As a result, we have an impasse, and from that desperation comes a group such as Hamas, dedicated to acting in terrorist fashion when the will of the people of Palestine is such that the mood is right to attack Israel. Meanwhile, the Israelis are taking a much more tactical approach, by slowly taking the Palestinian land and cutting off resources, and causing them to live in "open air prison" type conditions, as both parties attempt to systematically eliminate one another, using diversified tactics. Neither state wants the "two-state" solution, because neither is agreeing to anything that doesn't give them an "edge" in the deal.
Obviously there is a lot more to it than that, but that's a pretty accurate short form synopsis.
As I said in the beginning I'm fairly neutral in this conflict and am more interested in military tactics than I am with who is in the right and who is in the wrong. I'm keenly interested to see what else Hamas had planned, as you would assume that they have to know that there will be retaliation. I'm also interested to see how Israel approaches this conflict and how many lives they're willing to lose in urban fighting, rather than simply leveling infrastructure and storming Gaza.