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There are a number of inaccuracies with your question, which may help to explain why the Israelis did what they did.

1) Hamas is not a Neo-Nazi Party. -- Whatever horrible things can be said about their methods and their politics, their primary interest is political, i.e. the removal of a State, not ethnic cleansing. While it is likely that given the control of the entire former British Mandate of Palestine, mass pogroms against the Jewish inhabitants would ensue, Hamas would not try to further effectuate them. For them it is a question of political power, not racial purity.

2) Israel did not bequeath the West Bank to Hamas. -- Israel, at the Oslo Accords, set aside territory in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank to Fatah and the Palestinian Liberation Organization. These two organizations/terrorist groups were exclusive of Hamas intentionally by both sides. These two groups hybridized and formed the Palestinian Authority, which is still the government of the West Bank. The PA has been working very closely with Israel to improve the situation in the West Bank both for Palestinians and Israeli soldiers.

3) Israel's unilateral disengagement from Gaza was during the PA's control. -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon realized that it was economically unfeasible to maintain settlements in the Gaza Strip because it cost more to defend them and supply them than it the tax revenue and jobs that the region brought to Israel. After a series of failed negotiations, Sharon forcibly removed all Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip, making the territory a contiguous zone completely controlled by the Palestinian Authority.

4) Israel had no control of the Palestinian Elections of 2006 or the Palestinian Civil War of 2006. -- In 2006, the Palestinians had one of the freest elections in the history of the Arab World and elected Hamas over Fatah as the rulers of the Palestinian Authority in a landslide. Realizing that Hamas would worsen the lives for Palestinians almost immediately, Fatah made moves to exclude them from actually taking control. Angered that they were denied the power that they won, Hamas launched a civil war against Fatah and were able to force them out of Gaza. They were unsuccessful in taking the West Bank. In both the elections and the Civil War, Israel played no part in Palestinian internal affairs.

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On to what remains of your question. Israel cannot devote all of its efforts to removing Hamas from Gaza. It is an entrenched organization with a large percentage of people in its employ. It is not just a paramilitary organization, but it also has a political wing, a welfare wing, a police corps, an educational division, and healthcare division. It is a complete government with a very violent outlook. Israel attempts to toe the line between tolerating madness and combating insanity. For the moment, anyway, Gaza is not even the biggest threat to Israeli Security. Operation Cast Lead led to a severe reduction in Qassam Rocket attacks and so, Israel has needed to focus its attention on solving the Iran Crisis.

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