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Israel has never been interested in a peace deal.
It is a settler colonialist project in the finest traditions of such with the aim of conquering the entire region. And the US and friends support it for racist and capitalist reasons.
Israel supported the PA who wanted to postpone the elections due to the obvious Hamas victory yet Bush pressured to have these in order to democratize the middle east.
The end result was a Hamas victory and subsequent blockade policy which was supported by the Quartet
https://ecfr.eu/publication/back-to-democracy-europe-hamas-a...