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I'm not very sure that such things can be compared in the manner they are being compared.

Israel has a 'cease fire' with Egypt, Jordan that seems to be working.

North/South Korea.

Georgia/South-Ossetia.

Bosnia/Kosovo/Croatia/Serbia.

South Sudan (kind of).

And I don't think that anyone is naive about how the one's that failed ended up failing ...



Israel has negotiated and signed peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan. I don't understand in what sense you would say that these are 'cease fires', and how that relates to the article's point.


If we say that a 'cease fire' that later turned into a 'peace treaty' doesn't count as a successful peace treaty then of course it looks like 'cease fires' only result in failures.

If the resumption of hostilities qualifies as a failure, then I would have to say a permanent armistice and a peace treaty would have to be qualified as a success.


Well, prior to the peace treaties, there definitely were armistices. So those armistices worked very well indeed.


> Bosnia/Kosovo/Croatia/Serbia.

The wars are over for a long time, these aren't ceasfires.




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