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The BBC reports:
A long-term ceasefire has been agreed between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip.
The truce, ending seven weeks of fighting that has left more than 2,200 people - mostly Palestinians - dead, was brokered by Egypt and began at 19:00 local time (16:00 GMT).
Hamas said the deal represented a "victory for the resistance".
Israel is to ease its blockade of Gaza to allow in aid and building materials, Israeli officials said.
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Long-Term Ceasefire between Israel and Palestine Agreed
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Wednesday August 27 2014, @11:22AM
> I sometimes wish that more countries outside of the middle east
Or even countries inside the middle east - there are plenty of oil princes in nearby countries who are perfectly happy to give the palestinians money and weapons to bomb Israel, but don't allow them to come and seek refuge in their borders.
But yeah, without taking sides, I don't think there will ever be peace as long as both populations remain within shooting distance of one another.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Wednesday August 27 2014, @04:30PM
On the other hand, I suspect this would havebblown over long before now if the Palestinians hadn't *cough* elected a terrorist organization as their government. The Catholic / Prodistant wars in Ireland have pretty much gone out of existence over the same period of time.
If you could magical wave a wand over the situation and make it so that all Palestinian elected officials and military leaders would have to be women over 50 i suspect the the rocket launching which inevitably leads to bomb dropping would dissappear virtually over night.
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(Score: 2) by Geotti on Wednesday August 27 2014, @04:41PM
Are you saying that if the US would elect only Hillary Clintons there'd be no more wars?
(Score: 2) by akinliat on Thursday August 28 2014, @03:18AM
The difference is that the UK made it pretty clear to the Protestant leadership that they weren't getting any more support. Without that support, the Protestants, long used to being top dog, knew they'd be in trouble -- possibly even looking at a civil war.
If the US would ever get the gumption to remind Israel that it's just a client state (and a fairly useless one at that), then we might start to see some progress towards a negotiated settlement with the nutcases on both sides marginalized. But as long as the Israeli government is convinced that the US is their personal munitions delivery service, I just can't see them budging an inch.