Really? Because the only people doing any 'pushing into the sea' are the Israelis continually settling more land and throwing the Palestinians out. Where exactly are they supposed to go? I realize that's not a question Israel cares about, but it's one the international community does and Israel is ignoring that to great risk.
This simplistic and biased view above is something of a well-worn cliche. Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria comprise approximately 2% of the land there, 5% if you include total infrastructure.
The fact is, what occurred recently were the breakdown of peace talks, due to Palestinian intransigence, wherein the offer was for Israel to enact a phased withdrawal from the West Bank (based on 1967 lines) that would not include certain settlement blocs but which the Palestinians would be compensated for with Israeli territory, i.e. land swaps. Arab East Jerusalem was also to be the Palestinian capital. In return, the Palestinians had to recognize Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people, and agree to an end to the conflict and all further claims.
The Palestinians rejected this.
They then responded with a series of demands they wanted met before they would continue negotiations; demands they very likely knew Israel could not agree to (note, these were preconditions they wanted
just to get them back to the table, not a counter-offer or a part of the peace negotiations proper).
At this point the talks were already dead,
killed by the PA, but Israel and the US nonetheless were attempting to revive and extend them when the Palestinians decided to kill them a second time by entering into an agreement with Hamas. It is entirely correct for Israel not to negotiate with Hamas because (leaving aside the obvious - that Hamas is a racist, genocidal terrorist organisation) there is simply nothing to negotiate about, as they refuse to recognise Israel. Recognition is vital to peace, it's what the whole idea of peace is based on in this conflict. If you don't recognise the state you're supposedly making peace with, you do not accept the formula for that peace in the first place. It should also be noted that Hamas are explicitly against the
Quartet principles (Wiki link) and are therefore against the position of the UN, EU, US, Israel and, most importantly, the Palestinian people themselves (as they accept those principles and want peace, not Islamist terror).
It is clear that Netanyahu and the Israels were, in fact, seeking peace in this instance whereas Abbas and the Palestinians, once again, were not ready to accept that peace.