Re "You were talking about a ceasefire, remember...not deaths."
There was a ceasefire. Only one side tried to observe it. I'm tolerating a wiki page (that has endless pages of modifications) as evidence What it does highlight is the nonsense people talk when they suggest Palestinians are not interested in a 2 state solution. The one time in the last so many decades, when they go through the political process and a party legitimately wins handsomely on a 2 state manifesto, and the aftermath sees a 4 week onslaught from Israeli forces. Just how they started in 1946, when they were blowing up British forces, through to today - nothing different.
Re "ignoring the reality of Hamas' control, and that they chose to use Islamic Jihad (and perhaps other groups) as their proxies."
Not according to multiple independent reports at the time.
