I think that these excerpts taken from Hamas' Charter add some insight as to why we will not soon seen the end of Hamas' terrorist activities, regardless of whatever Israel does to address wrongs done to the Palestinian people in the interest of Israel's self-preservation and desire to exist as a homeland for the Jewish people. And, make no mistake, there have been wrongs committed all around. Hamas, in particular, has wronged the Palestinian people.
Israel must be utterly obliterated:
"Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it" (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory)."
Jews must be utterly obliterated:
"The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said: 'The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (evidently a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews.' (related by al-Bukhari and Moslem)."
Peace talks are to be scorned:
"There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors."
Religion is all that truly matters:
"It is necessary to instill in the minds of the Moslem generations that the Palestinian problem is a religious problem, and should be dealt with on this basis."
Secularism stands between Hamas and the PLO:
"Secularism completely contradicts religious ideology... That is why, with all our appreciation for The Palestinian Liberation Organization - and what it can develop into - and without belittling its role in the Arab-Israeli conflict, we are unable to exchange the present or future Islamic Palestine with the secular idea. The Islamic nature of Palestine is part of our religion and whoever takes his religion lightly is a loser... The day The Palestinian Liberation Organization adopts Islam as its way of life, we will become its soldiers, and fuel for its fire that will burn the enemies."
Quoted source:
Hamas Covenant