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It is accurate in saying that a "peace" deal with Hamas is a dead end towards peace.

Indeed. They would just regroup, rearm and bide their time to attack again. Their leadership is quite explicit about wanting to repeat 10/7 over and over again.

Of course, one must ask oneself, with the inability to end Hamas, due to this being real life and not a movie, would a peace deal, at least in the short term, to get the rest of the hostages back, be worth it?

NSDAP was ended. Why not Hamas?
Of course, Palestinians must want to abandon vainglorious dreams of destroying Israel. Are you suggesting that they are constitutionally incapable of doing that?

Obviously, Hamas would want unreasonable things for that.

Quite. For the release of all hostages, they are still demanding release of all Palestinian terrorists from Israeli prisons.
Even for phase 1 of the deal, they want hundreds of terrorists in exchange for ~30 hostages.

But if the future will be violent anyway, why not lie about peace in the meantime, so repatriate families in Israel (and abroad)?

I wonder how many of the hostages are still alive. Bodies of five hostages were recovered just the other day.
And it would mean that thousands of Palestinian terrorists would be freed.
In the biggest blunder of his career (until dropping the ball on 10/7), Netanyahu released >1000 terrorists for one kidnapped Israeli soldier. Hamas chief Yaya Sinwar was among those terrorists, as were others who participated in the 10/7 genocidal massacre.

And then come up with an actual plan for how to effectively paralyze Hamas, which honestly would be more intelligence related than violence related.

It needs both. And there needs to be a strong international stance against Iran. Lifting sanctions and giving them pallets of cash like Obama did in 2015 was the wrong approach.

Of course, that can't be with Netanyahu, because he is a fool and a criminal and he wants all of Gaza. He doesn't care about the hostages.

I do not think he wants all of Gaza. But Israel should control the Philadelphi corridor to prevent weapons smuggling into the Strip.