""If Israel were to bring Abbas on an Israeli tank it wouldn't do much for his legitimacy"

Yup! Someone tried that in the not so distant Lebanon: Bashir Gemayel did not enjoy the vestiges of his presidency ... not one bit! In McClatchy's, here

"...One way would move toward an evolving diplomatic truce that would leave Hamas severely crippled, but still in control of the Gaza Strip.

The other would lead Israeli soldiers into the heart of Gaza on a ground offensive that some strategists argue shouldn't end until Hamas is removed from power....

The danger is that toppling Hamas would create a political vacuum in Gaza. It also would be politically impossible for Israel to re-install pragmatic Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas."If Israel were to bring (Abbas) on an Israeli tank it wouldn't do much for his legitimacy," said Dore Gold, one of Israel's former U.N. ambassadors and the president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, an independent conservative policy group. For that reason, even Gold is among those who think it's better for Israel to leave Hamas in power.."