Mid-east leaders commit to truce

[ecoli]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6185380.stm

 

Any chance that it will stick? It's going to be hard to control the many groups that are out there, especially considering that leadership isn't centralized. But, I think it's a good sign that mid-east leaders are able to make agreements on their own volition.

[Aardvark]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6185380.stm

 

Any chance that it will stick? It's going to be hard to control the many groups that are out there, especially considering that leadership isn't centralized. But, I think it's a good sign that mid-east leaders are able to make agreements on their own volition.

 

Ceasefires come and go.

 

But it does seem promising that more talking is taking place. That provides a little hope for the future, the more they talk the more they may come to see each other as human rather than simply 'the enemy'.

[Sisyphus]

No, there's no chance it will stick. That kind of violence can only stop when the culture that produces it changes, and that's a gradual process. There are relatively peaceful times and relatively violent times. This might be a sign of a relatively peaceful time. It is, at least, a prerequisite for such a time that leaders meet and make symbolic peace gestures and have "cease fires" and the like, though no agreement of leaders can stop a terrorist.