There's no comparison and you know it.
Israel cannot negotiate with an organization like Hamas that is not only dedicated to murdering Jews and destroying Israel; they won't stop no matter what. They mean what they say and back that up with action. They incite, praise, and reward such acts against Jews and are never apologetic.
Israel cannot meet Hamas half-way so that Hamas recognizes Israel & won't kill Jews on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Sinn Fein was nothing like this. Sinn Fein at least agreed to halt all attacks BEFORE negotiations. And they did.
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As to your points:
1)An ABSOLUTE and PERMANENT moratorium on settlement construction or expansion. I think Palestinians at the very least, at the very least, need to know that they aren't going to ever lose any MORE land, and that any state they get will have contiguous territory.
This was done when Israel pulled out of Gaza. That was the end of settlements, occupation, and expansion there. After Sharon, Olmert ran a campaign in which he was going to do a similar disengagement from the W.Bank. Hamas couldn't stop firing rockets in order for that to happen.
2)Back off on the collective punishment for extremist acts. It's likely that the non-extremist majority of Palestinians are just as scared of the crazyheads on their side as the Israelis are, if not more so. And there is little that non-extremist majority can do to control the extremists, so they majority shouldn't be punished for them. Palestinians don't owe it to Israel to have an internal civil war.
The problem is you believe
ANY response from Israel to terror is collective punishment. It's because you
say you believe Israel has a right to self-defense, but if it was up to you, you wouldn't allow Israel to ACT upon that right to protect its civilians.
3)No more restrictions at all on food imports into Gaza. Food can't be weaponized.
There are no restrictions on food imports into Gaza.
4)Admit that the issue is territory,
If that were the case, the Palestinians wouldn't have rejected one deal after the next from 1937 to this day.
The issue has always been that those who represent Palestine do not believe in Israel's right to exist in peace among its neighboring states.
The problem is you can't admit this very simple fact.
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