Stalemate toward the next fighting - or toward a new peace?
For now, no more missiles fly from Gaza to Israel - nor from Israel to Gaza. The last several days of mutual-retaliation is now at its end. I will not re-post here what can be read widely in the news: Both sides are announcing victories. Both sides are proclaiming their military superiority in offensive & defensive measures. Both sides are celebrating in some way. Egypt - in the past few years has itself been reshaped politically - played a key role in working toward brokering the current situation of cease fire. But, the text of the brokered agreement does nothing more than stop current acts of violence. ( Read it here .) I fear no sustaining peace has been won! Both sides agreeing to cease current hostilities in active campaigns of violence, brings no peace - only the cessation of current conflict. Both sides are burying the dead in their midst, with the high probability that the loss of life will only fuel future fighters and future hostility.