“The main goal of everyone right now is a cease-fire,” Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, told USA TODAY. “You can’t do anything without a cease-fire − you can’t do humanitarian aid, you can’t treat the wounded, you can’t even remove bodies until there’s a cease-fire.”
“Nothing should get in the way of a humanitarian cease-fire.”
Well not quite. Leading up to the Oslo accords the PLO and Israel recognized each other. We all know how that ended, and that is why Hamas became what it is today (well there’s also a lot of direct and indirect support by the Israeli government). What I’m trying to say is: Palestinians not recognizing Israel isn’t inevitable; just the result of Israeli actions.