@evan I found the US ambassador's statement infuriating: "we do not support calls for an immediate ceasefire. This would only plant the seeds for the next war, because Hamas has no desire to see a durable peace, to see a two-State solution."
Every family that is bombed is creating more extremists eager to join Hamas or an even more violent future group. Those are the "seeds for the next war." Hopeless individuals who watched their innocent loved ones die horribly are ripe to become suicide bombers.
Likud is the greatest barrier to a two-state solution imo.