Israel withdrew on paper only. With full control over all airspace, water, electricity, borders and more. Then Israel actively and financially supported the very terror cell they fell victims to, not as hope for peace, but as a way to stop any chance of a two state solution which Netanyahu has bragged about on ceveral occassions.
I can use the west bank perfectly because you do not have Hamas there to point a finger at but israel continues without justification or cause the absolute onslaught of state sponsored terrorism and if you treat the palestinians like that on one side, there's absolutely no reason to think you won't treat them the same on the other. It makes no sense to create peace with Israel because Israel won't let you live in peace anyway. That's just a fact for Palestinians and why Israel must be stopped in its track before it fully becomes the very thing they said was never supposed to happen again.
Defining the 2005 withdrawal as 'on paper only' ignores the reality that for nearly 20 years, there wasn't a single Israeli soldier or civilian inside the Gaza Strip. Control over borders and airspace is a standard security measure when the governing body on the other side is an internationally recognized terror group committed to your destruction. If the goal was 'living in peace,' Gaza had every opportunity to become a Mediterranean hub; instead, it became a fortress.
Regarding the 'funding' claim: allowing Qatari funds into Gaza was an attempt to maintain a civilian baseline and prevent a humanitarian crisis a policy of 'calm for cash' that, in hindsight, was a catastrophic intelligence failure. However, labeling an attempt at economic stability as 'supporting terror' is a massive goalpost shift.
Finally, the idea that there is 'no Hamas' in the West Bank is demonstrably false. The reason the West Bank hasn't turned into a full-scale launchpad for rockets isn't because of a lack of desire from the Palestinian street, but because of the very security operations you are criticizing. You argue that Israel won’t let Palestinians live in peace; we argue that October 7th proved that when Israel steps back, the result isn't peace it’s an existential threat. Security isn't a 'reward' for us to grant; it’s a necessity we have to enforce when the alternative is our own disappearance