Hair Peace agreement in Gaza is annoyingly close. First Hamas indicated that it would probably say no, then it said yes. But what it said had warnings – and did not sound the same as the agreement that Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, agreed.
As beautiful trew, The independent‘S Chief International replies, writes,’ so far neither Netanyahu nor has accepted any specific point in the plan. ” Instead, she says, “Both have publicly declared their interpretations of the proposal and promised to support it.”
However, what appears to be ordinary grinding is that booths have accepted a ceasefire and that Hassas has agreed to turn the few who live home, which is the most important thing. The rest can be negotiated further.
Parts for the peace plan are in a gray zone that will be well known to Sir Tony Blair, one of its authors. He was able to secure the agement between Unionist and Republicans in Northern Ireland in 1998 through “constructive ambiguity”. It must be sincerely hoped that a similar effort to ensure that words mean what people want them to mean will be successful.
We are in the undisputed positions to bid in the efforts of two most unlikely peace creators. Donald Trump has made no secret to his ambition to win the Nobel Peace Prize. He claims to have and ended seven wars already, but if he can bring peace to an eighth, in Gaza, he could deploy it.
He may have left it late for this year’s award, which will be Annoudéd on Friday, but as the nominations closed on January 31, just 11 days after his inauguration for his second period as president of the United States. In any case, the Nobel Committee, a five-strong body appointed by the Norwegian parliament, is said to be careful to award the price until this time has been adopted this confirmation of that peace.
Maybe next year. If there is peace in Gaza and if it is busy, it will be worth it, no matter what the unpleasant ambiguity that needs to be tooled, and with the blasing Egomania to be mooded.
The other potential peace producer is Sir Tony Blair. He has his offenders because the disaster in the Iraq war, but again, if he can contribute to the blood edition in Gaza and a beginning to a better future for the Palestinian population there and in the West Bank, his contribution should also be welcomed.
We have been pessimistic about the prospect of an early ending to this one -sided, counterproductive war because it sees Mr Netanyahu had calculated that the only way he could stick to was expanding it.
But if Mr. Trump’s desperation after the place in history that the Nobel Prize has awarded, and Sir Tony Blair’s draft 20-plan has persuaded the Israeli prime minister that interest now serves best of peace, it is a prize beyond.
Whatever happens over the next few days, the durability of a ceasefire will be uncertain. The end point of any peace agreement will remain disputed, shrouded in ambiguity and apparent iron conclible differences.
But we Weelcoma the most promising hope of peace as the war approaches its second anniversary, which we have seen so far.