"what purpose will this so called truce plan serve? Will it bring back all those women,children being killed no it wont and the loss of a dear one can only be felt if you have experienced one, so this so called truce is nothing more then putting salt over the wounds of Palestinians and making sure that they live in shame for the rest of their lives."
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"The legitimate object of war is a more perfect peace." - General William T. Sherman.
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It was General Sherman who, by gutting the economy of the slave-based economy of the South, demonstrated that the core idea of the Confederacy was unsustainable without the consent of the Union. After the Appomattox surrender, there wasn't a peep of guerrilla warfare from the defeated. Sherman was hated because he had humiliated the South, but the Confederacy's soldiers did not return home shamed, for they had fought bravely in its cause.
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Since the rise and fall of Hamas leaves no hope for either Israelis or Palestinians in pursuing a two-state solution, and a one-state solution is precluded by mutual hostility between the parties, the only path of hope is to pursue
the no-state solution: Gaza goes to Egypt, the West Bank to Jordan. This isn't 1967, both Egypt and Jordan have peace treaties with Israel. However, the no-state solution would seem to violate the principle of self-determination agreed upon in the Camp David Accords. But solving this is a problem for diplomats and statesmen, not artillery.