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.

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'.

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.