Who told you Hamas is not willing to embrace peace? The same people who told you Iraq had stockpiles of WMDs and liniks to al Qaeda? How reliable are your sources?
The fact is Hamas recently embraced peace for four months despite repeated Israeli violations. You should read this topic:
http://forums.canadiancontent.net/international-politics/80826-our-news-lying-us-about.html
If you go back and look at Hamas's record objectively, you will see that they respect their truces with Israel, but Israel does not reciprocate. When Israel hits Hamas, Hamas hits back, truce or not.
If you look at past Hamas "truces" or hudna's, you will see that every one of them broke down initially as a result of Zionist violations, not Hamas violations.
Remember the 2003 "Roadmap to Peace"
Here is how it started:
Worldandnation: Agreements met with violence
Here is how it ended:
Five Israeli missiles incinerated Ismail Abu Shanab in Gaza City yesterday, killing one of the most powerful voices for peace in Hamas and destroying the ceasefire that Palestinian leaders believed would avert civil war.
Israeli helicopters struck the car carrying the third most senior Hamas leader in retaliation for Tuesday's suicide bombing of a Jerusalem bus on Tuesday, killing 20 mostly orthodox Jews, including six children.
The missiles also buried a seven-week ceasefire already strained by Israeli killings of Islamic militants and retaliatory suicide bombings, and threw the US-led road map to peace deeper into crisis.
Hamas declared an immediate end to the truce and vowed a bloody revenge for the death of Abu Shanab, who was married with 11 children...
Killing of Hamas leader ends truce | World news | The Guardian
Abu Shanab interview:
My Last Encounter with Ismail Abu Shanab - TIME
Why would Israel assassinate a force for peace within the Hamas leadership if Israel was interested in peace?
You will find an accurate timeline of events leading to the breakdown of the "2003 Roadmap to Peace" here:
...This is how it happened:
On August 8, Israeli soldiers killed two Hamas militants in Nablus. But the retaliation was restrained: on August 12, a Hamas suicide bomber killed one Israeli in Rosh-Ha'ayin and another bomber killed one person in the Ariel settlement. Both suicide bombers came from Nablus. Hamas announced that the hudna would continue. On August 14, the Israeli army killed Muhammad Seeder, head of the military wing of Hamas in Hebron. Five days later, on August 19, a suicide bomber from Hebron blew himself up in a Jerusalem bus, killing 20 men, women and children. Two days later, on August 21, the army assassinated Isma'il Abu-Shanab, the fourth ranking leader of Hamas.
This time it was not even possible even to pin on the victim the appellation "ticking bomb", as is usual in such cases. The man was a well-known political leader. Why was he of all people chosen for assassination? A military correspondent on Israeli TV made a slip of the tongue: Abu-Shanab was killed, he said, because he was "available". Meaning, he was an easy target because he did not go underground after the bus bombing, as did the leaders of the military wing.
This time, at long last, the aim was achieved. The Palestinian organizations announced that they were calling off the hudna. Sharon and Co. rejoiced. Within hours the Israeli army had again penetrated into the centers of the Palestinian towns, starting an orgy of arrests and house demolitions (more than 40 in a single day).
http://www.counterpunch.org/avnery08252003.html
Another example of Hamas's willingness to embrace peace:
Another Hamas Peace Plan Ignored
Obviously I disagree that "looking backward" is a roadbloack to moving forward toward peace. In fact failure to recognize how Israelis and Palestinians arrived at their current situation, is an obstacle to moving forward in a just manner. Without justice, you can't have peace.
If all you knew were today's headlines then you would be unaware of the original injustice of Israel's creation which dispossessed 800,000 Palestinians of their homes, property, bank accounts, family portraits... and turned them into nationless refugees forced to exist on UN handouts. You would not be aware of the 60+ years of injustice these people have suffered and not understand their current anger and frustration.
No, things can't go back to where they were. Creating new injustices to address old ones won't solve the problem either. (That's a root cause of the current problems).
Lookng back at words and actions can be helpful when evaluating trustworthiness. If someone commits atrocities and lies about them in the past how likely is it that they are committing and lying about their atrocities today?
In other words can you believe what the news and Israel tells us about Israel's current actions in Gaza, based on their past record?
Zionists talk about peace and living peacefully with their neighbors, but they initiate violence. Just because their propaganda machine is pretty good at convincing people otherwise doesn't mean its true.
Its a myth that the 1948 war started when Israel declared independance and was attacked by its Arab neighbors. The real name of the war should be the 1947 Zionist Ethnic Cleansing War. The fighting started in November 1947 when Zionists began their ethnic cleansing campaign in Palestine and committed a series of horrendous atrocities. They attacked and ethnically cleansed Palestinians on both sides of the UN partition. Israel's Arab neighbors had to wait until the British pulled out to intervene or risk involving the UK. The Brits waited until the Zionists achieved their objectives before leaving.
That initial injustice which Zionists try to hide all these years later is why so many peope don't understand the current situation. The Zionist Ethnic Cleansing War never ended. Its been going on for 60+ years and it won't end until Palestinians have both freedom and justice.
The current Zionist path of denying justice and committing atrocities will not lead to Israel's longterm peace and security. Zionists may kill a few of their adversaries today. But for each adversary they kill, their adversaries use their atrocities to recruit 100 more.
Eventually Zionist Israel will be defeated. Its only a matter of time. BTW, that not a hope, but a prediction of an inevitable outcome based on what I know. I don't wish to see Israelis suffer any more than I wish to see Palestinians suffer.