Hamas’s Qassam Brigades has threatened to execute Israeli captives if Israel continues to bombard and kill civilians in Gaza.
“Any targeting of innocent civilians without warning will be met regretfully by executing one of the captives in our custody, and we will be forced to broadcast this execution,” said Abu Obeida, a spokesman for Hamas’ Qassam Brigades.
“We regret this decision but we hold the Zionist enemy and their leadership the responsibility for this,” he said.
This statement might be valid for the peace plans of 2000s. I don’t think it can be applied to the original suggestions in 1930s and 1940s, since they were getting to own their land for the first time since Britain’s colonisation. That might have been the time to accept compromises, especially given the Palestinian Arabs’ relations with the Nazis during and before WW2.
And of course afterwards, it was the Arabs who launched the first war against Israel in 1948.