Why is this about US politics? But it's always a strange dance between the two tribes that the more civilians or hamas fighters that Israel kills, the more solid support hamas has from the Pales. Israel last tried peace 25 years ago, only to be turned down. So, Likud helped create hamas and has been expanding Israel's borders, in violation of intl law, ever since.
Personally I'd have the US keep the money and let these folks usher in the Rapture.
An opinion grounded firmly in ignorance and bigotry. After the Palestinians launched the second intifada Sharon withdrew Israel from Gaza and closed outlying Israeli settlements in the West Bank and allowed 13,000 PA troops to travel across Israel to Gaza to take control of Gaza, in an effort to restart negotiations, but the PA troops were quickly destroyed by Hamas, which had only an estimated 3,000 armed fighters, making it clear that the PA was in no position to negotiate for a Palestinian state that included Gaza.
In 2008, the US pushed Israel to open negotiations with the PA, despite the fact that the PA clearly was not competent to provide peace to Israel; nonetheless Israel, PM Olmert, offered the PA and expanded version of the 2000 peace treaty that included joint jurisdiction over Jerusalem and an overpass between Gaza and the West Bank under PA control, and again, the PA rejected it.
Nevertheless, in 2009, PM Netanyahu made a speech at Bar Ilan University in which he stated he would support a Palestinian state if it met certain conditions related to Israel's security needs.
"Netanyahu expressed his willingness to accept a Palestinian state alongside Israel, under the following conditions: recognition of Israel as a Jewish state; a solution to the issue of
Palestinian refugees outside Israel;
demilitarization of the future Palestinian state; defensible borders for Israel; and
Jerusalem remaining the united capital of Israel."
Israeli PM Netanyahu's Bar-Ilan Speech (2009) at ECF.org's interactive database
ecf.org.il
In 2010, in an effort to distinguish himself as the stupidest man to ever sit in the Oval Office, Obama demanded that Israel and the PA agree to an Israeli withdrawal to pre 1967 lines while refusing to discuss any of Israel's security concerns until after a Palestinian state had been created. Obama's attempt to strong arm Israel into scrapping its security to give him a political win not only failed but offended both the PA and Israel so deeply that no further negotiations have been possible since. Even the Biden administration acknowledged that no further negotiations with the PA were realistic at this time before it began flip flopping to try to win some Muslim votes in Michigan.
So Israelis on both the left and the right have been trying for decades to reach some compromise with the Palestinians to bring peace to the region and the Palestinians have consistently refused all efforts.
Your statement " Israel last tried peace 25 years ago, only to be turned down. So, Likud helped create hamas" shows just how vast and profound your ignorance is. Hamas was created in 1987, during the first intifada, and its charter that calls for the destruction of Israel was published in 1988 and there is no record of Israel providing any help to Hamas until it allowed Qatar to provide money, allegedly for humanitarian aid to Gaza, in an ill advised nda failed effort to buy peace with Hamas
