Why Did the Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Take So Long? - William Spaniel

[TexasTowelie]

Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire, set to begin tomorrow. Why did it just come about now, and not six months ago? Alternatively, why now and not a year from now? This video examines the end of war from the perspective of militarized conflict as a continuation of bargaining. For fighting to terminate, something about the act of war itself must have changed why a negotiated resolution was unacceptable to one party before but became acceptable after. We examine a few of the possibilities here.

0:00 A Ceasefire in Gaza
0:57 Details of the Agreement
3:07 Hostage Problems?
4:30 Israel Learned Its War Aims Were Too High?
5:45 Normalization with Saudi Arabia?
7:17 U.S. Inducements?

[stopdiggin]

1. two very intransigent actors. both willing to reassign goal posts at last minute.

and both intent on the pursuit (and achievement) of goals while the conflict continued.