Elon Musk on the response to the October 7 Hamas attack most conducive to long-term peace

This is strictly my opinion: the goal of Hamas was to provoke an overreaction from Israel.  They obviously do not expect to have a military victory, but they really wanted to commit the worst attrocities that they could in order to provoke the most aggressive response possible from Israel, and then leverage that aggressive response to rally Muslims worldwide for the cause of Gaza and Palestine, which they have succeeded in doing.  So the counterintuitive thing here, I think the thing that should be done, even though it is very difficult, is that I recommend that Israel engage in the most conspicuous acts of kindness possible...  That is the actual thing that would thwart the goal of Hamas.

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If you're not going to just outright commit genocide against an entire people, which obviously shouldn't be acceptable to anyone, then you're going to leave a lot of people alive who subsequently hate Israel.  So the question is "for every Hamas member that you kill, how many did you create?"  And if you create more than you kill, you've not succeeded...  And it's safe to say that if you kill somebody's child in Gaza, you've made at least a few Hamas members who will die just to kill an Israeli...  If the goal ultimately is some sort of long-term peace, one has to look at this from the standpoint of over time are there more or fewer terrorists being created?

~ Elon Musk, "Elon Musk on Israel-Hamas War," Lex Clips, 0:40 mark, November 9, 2023