{"id":199,"date":"2005-02-09T01:15:36","date_gmt":"2005-02-09T01:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=199"},"modified":"2005-02-09T01:15:36","modified_gmt":"2005-02-09T01:15:36","slug":"ceasefire-in-israelpalestine-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"Ceasefire in Israel\/Palestine conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frankly, I’ll take the peace where I can get it. Condi can take all the glory she likes as long as the world gets something that looks like a positive step.
\nWell, to be more precise, it’s the opportunity for a positive step. Nothing’s actually changed. The onus is still on Israel to start making some changes.
\nThe Palestinian hardliners, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, have both pledged to honour the ceasefire and watch to see what Israel will do. Whether because they’ve been battered by Israel or because they’ve always been open to compromise, it’s a definite claim for progress.
\nIt’s the Israeli hardliners who are the real problem. They are a large political bloc and they’re not satisfied with how things are going. They want greater Israel, regardless of pragmatism or justice. They have enough electoral power to make Sharon’s position fragile.
\nI figure that Sharon will do his best to keep Israel’s side of the ceasefire until the Gaza pullout is underway. The hardline Israelis are increasingly a thorn in Sharon’s side, and they are expected to protest the pullout with violence. Such violence, set against a wider peace, will allow Sharon to marginalise them. (Of course, once the Gaza pullout is complete, all bets are off.) (And the Gaza pullout itself is a problematic thing, but we won’t go there in this post.)
\nOf course, the whole thing is fragile – it will only take a couple of whackjobs in Palestine deciding that the ceasefire is a failure and violating it with a bombing to send the whole place spiralling back down. Or some Israeli army nutjob taking the approved levels of oppression and control a few steps too far. And I’m sure there are plenty in positions of authority in the Israeli army and in Hamas\/Islamic Jihad who will soon be itching for the resumption of hostilities.
\nBut it’s too easy to be cynical. For all these problems, it is a peace. I hope it lasts, and I wish the people of Israel and Palestine well.
\n———-
\nNow you’ve read that, read this reality check<\/a> from the always-fascinating Rafah Pundits<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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