This cease fire is just insane to me

[Herman Munster]

So they have to stop killing each other at Monday at 8am, but for the next day it's fine to continue killing each other? And you know both sides are going to go full force the next day and try to kill and cause as much damage as possible before the cease fire.

Why can't they stop the fucking killing NOW, not Monday at 8am?

[JohMunich99]

1. Everyone has to get the memo

If there is a cease-fire immediately, but some guy doesn't know it, he'll "break" the cease fire and they'll need to go back to the negotiation table.

[Kagemusha]

5. That doesn't explain the conscious escalating by itself.

Though the reasons seem clear enough to me. Bargaining chips, territory control, bypassing and trapping Hezbollah forces in the hope they can be cleaned out later somehow.

[uppityperson]

2. exactly.

They can send out messages to everyone saying "stop" now.

[Melynn]

3. I thought the same thing

What about the people who are going to be killed between now and next Monday. Don't those people count. It's beyond insane.

Leaders of nations play their power games and normal average people die. All the people of the world should just refuse to engage in war.

[JohMunich99]

8. It's sad

But they don't have everyone's cell phone number. The news has to get out so that someone doesn't break the cease fire before they realize that one is even going on.

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[EFerrari]

6. Welcome to DU, bridge. I feel the same way.

:(

[breakaleg]

7. It makes no sense...

Up until now, Israel has supposedly held back on the ground invasion out of fear of high Israeli casualties. And the day after they announce a resolution to stop the fighting, they increase their assault, and they have possibly the highest number of daily casualties to date.

[Jazz2006]

9. I understand your point, but

would you prefer no ceasefire?

All ceasefires have to come with a date and time, and in this case, it's timed to coincide with a peacekeeping force being in place, which makes sense.

[Posteritatis]

10. *All* significant historical ceasefires have had advance warning

Everything up to and including the WWI Armistice and the unconditional surrenders of Germany and Japan in WWII had dates and hours of ceasefire. You simply can't light-switch these sorts of things on and off. Yes, people often try to rush to do as much damage as possible in the interim, but as other people have said, declaring the ceasefire to be effective Right This Second just doesn't cut it. That would be massively violated to the point of offing the process.

So you establish a time, as soon as possible, when everybody is fully aware of the fact that You Don't Shoot After This Time, and accept what happens between declaring the time and the ceasefire itself. Pretty much anything less is unrealistic - more to the point, impossible.

[Skittles]

11. it is disgusting

a sad commentary on human beings