Recognising Palestine doesn't reward Hamas

First Thoughts

      Hamas controls the Gaza Strip. The other part of the Gaza, the West Bank, takes up the vast majority of Palestine in terms of both territory and population. 
      Hence Hamas has nothing to do with most of Palestine. So Palestine recognised as a country cannot be logically connected and originated with the Hamas attack on Israel.

I''ll look at it from three angles.
     What if Hamas alone wanted Palestine to be recognised? 
     What if the international community recognised the Gaza Strip as its own country? 
     What if the recognition happened soon after the Hamas attack?

Questions

Imagine if Hamas alone wanted Palestine to be recognised. 
      In this scenario, the UK recognising it as a country coud be seen as a reward for Hamas. But this isn't the case. 
      It's a goal all Palestinians want all over the world. Plus most countries around the world want this, too! 
      So it's clearly an idea that isn't associated with terror.

If the international community recognised only the Gaza Strip as its own country, maybe that could be seen as rewarding Hamas. 
      We have seen in Afghanistan that the international community will work with a country run by terrorists for the good of the people. But Afghanistan was already a recognised country at that point. Plus this cooperation wasn't endorsed early on. 
      So there's no reason why countries would endorse a terrorist area of an unrecognised state. Like recognising Palestine for Hamas' benefit.

If the recognition happened soon after the Hamas' terrorist attack on Israel, then this definitely would have been seen as a reward for Hamas. 
      However, the recognition happened years after the fact. So the UK and other countries recognising Palestine has nothing to do with Hamas. 
      Not to mention most countries in the world recognised Palestine as a state before the Hamas attack. (Clearly this recognition was not a reward for this yet-to-happen Hamas attack). 

Final Thoughts

The Israel government viewing a recognised Palestine as a reward for Hamas simply does not make sense as a thought process.