Does Israel really want peace?

4/3/06, Palestinian leader Obayat was shot 'execution-style' by Israeli forces - In the Monday morning assassination of resistance leader Raed Obayat by Israeli special forces, eyewitnesses describe a scene of a badly beaten Obayat, and his companion Ra'ed Sulaiman Abu Joura, being dragged down four flights of stairs while crying out "I am injured! I am injured!", after which Israeli forces shot the two in an 'execution-style' assassination.
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4/4/06, Israel Fires Missiles Into Abbas' Compound - Israeli warplanes fired three missiles into the presidential compound of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday, wounding two people and leaving deep craters in the ground. Abbas was not there at the time.

The Israeli airstrike came in response to homemade Palestinian rocket attacks on southern Israel, though it was not immediately clear why Abbas' compound was targeted. Abbas has been a strong critic of the rocket fire and has urged the new Hamas Cabinet to accept peacemaking with Israel.
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4/4/06, Hamas: Palestinians seek peace with Israel [login required] - The Hamas foreign minister says Palestinians hope for "peace based on a two-state solution" with Israel. This marks a significant move away from non-recognition of Israel by the new Hamas-led Palestinian National Authority, and to endorse the vision of the diplomatic Quartet, the European Union, Russia, the United Nations and the United States, of "two states living side-by-side in peace."

But, Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar said recent Israeli moves in the West Bank "will ultimately diminish any hopes for the achevement of settlement and peace based on a two-state solution."
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4/6/06, Jury Says Brit Filmmaker Murdered in Gaza - The fatal shooting of a British filmmaker by an Israeli soldier was murder, the jury in a London coroner's inquest said Thursday. James Miller, 34, was shot in the neck by a soldier in the Gaza Strip in May 2003 while filming a documentary about the impact of violence on children in the region.