Have you read the Hamas charter? Have you heard the leaders of Hamas?
They refuse to recongnize the state of Israel. Abbas tried to convince Hamas to, but they refused. No plan to recongnize Israel has been accepted by Hamas the main governing body of the Palestinian people.
Lavikor. I do not know whether you were alive during the Oslo Accords, but for those followed the Oslo Accords in 1988, the Palestine National Council recognized Israel and declared the independance of the Palestinian state. They have re-iterated that in 1991 (Madrid) and 1993. Can one state whether Israel has done the same for the Palestian state? And just so you know lavikor, Hamas was relatively small during those periods.
Arafat would have never accepted any reasonable plan. There is no point in talking to someone who refuses to accept you and live side by side in peace with you.
Reasonable plan? If you call the Camp David a reasonable plan, then you either haven't read it or you are extremely deluded that a plan like the Camp David could be called reasonable. Furthermore, whilst the plan has been rejected, negotiations were started.
Los Angeles Times:
"Amid signs that the two sides appear to be edging toward some sort of compromise on the emotional issue of Jerusalem, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators worked through the start of the Jewish Hanukkah holiday Thursday expressing a rare shared optimism."
[Source: Los Angeles Times, December 22, 2000. "Hopeful mood fuels talks on Mideast peace; Negotiations: Israelis, Palestinians work through Jewish holiday as signs surface of a compromise."]
New York times:
"Senior Israeli and Palestinian officials concluded nearly a week of stop-and-start negotiations in Taba, Egypt, tonight by saying jointly that they have "never been closer to reaching" a final peace accord but lacked sufficient time to conclude one before the Israeli elections on Feb. 6..... At a joint news conference in Taba, Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami of Israel called the two-way talks, from which the Americans were conspicuously absent, "the most fruitful, constructive, profound negotiations in this phase of the peace process." He said the two sides hoped to pick up where they left off after the elections -- although his boss, Mr. Barak, is expected to lose."
Suddenly, the talks were broken off and Sharon after being elected never resumed it.