فلسطين/Palestine | Israel

United States Secretary of State Kerry, post recent truce effort in Egypt, is now in Paris along with high ranking representatives of a number of countries, in an ongoing stride toward a truce of some sort between Hamas and the Israeli military that has taken military action in the past few weeks.

For those that have vivid memories of the Anwar Sadat era and Camp David agreements, moments with Yasir Arafat in September of 1993 in Washington, a number of questions seem to present themselves simultaneously, among the protuberant is, is a truce that comes into being a truce within a set of peace efforts already made?  Other questions include, if a truce and truces generally speaking, is being worked toward, is it indicative that historic peace agreements can be resultantly portrayed as cast aside?

The death toll in the region, post teenage abduction incident, whether directly related to the abductions or not, is said to be up around 1000, a thousand persons.