You guys are talking around each other and not even on the same thing with regard hot fire incidents.

Israel will negotiate a cease fire with Gaza/Hamas, such as the one Egypt offered today/yesterday that Israel had accepted. Hamas refused for whatever reason they're offering at any given moment. Israel has participated in cease fires in in every other hot incidents; to the best of my memory it has always been the other side rejecting or breaking cease fires.

The above is NOT TO BE CONFLATED with negotiating a final peace treaty. Israel's position is that it will not negotiate a final peace treaty, unless the right of a Jewish Israel (allowing for the right of non-Jews to live there also) is recognized by Hamas, especially, and the PA and Arab nations.