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 fig...