America should have sent its army and Nato together to topple Hamas when elected in 2006. Sending Fatah strongman Muhammad Dahlan or the Israeli army to topple Hamas is useless. Read:
The Gaza Bombshell
After failing to anticipate Hamas’s victory over Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian election, the White House cooked up yet another scandalously covert and self-defeating Middle East debacle: part Iran-contra, part Bay of Pigs. With confidential documents, corroborated by outraged former and current U.S. officials, the author reveals how President Bush, Condoleezza Rice, and Deputy National-Security Adviser Elliott Abrams backed an armed force under Fatah strongman Muhammad Dahlan, touching off a bloody civil war in Gaza and leaving Hamas stronger than ever. ………
https://www.vanityfair.Com/news/2008/04/gaza200804