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That is why the UK’s Financial Services Authority, and even the Confederation of British Industry, which speaks largely for non-financial firms concerned about access to credit, has begun to call for a truce between the authorities and financial markets.
Those confrontations ended with a truce of sorts – though skirmishes have continued – because US forces have been reluctant to fight Sunni insurgents and Shi’a militiamen at the same time.
The Basque terrorist organization ETA has ended its truce with the Spanish government, and, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of its founding, placed bombs in the town of Burgos and on the island of Majorca.
The proposed exit seems to reflect a truce accord among the Fed’s hawks and doves.
It could if it ushered in a Palestinian national unity government and an agreement to an extended truce backed by a strong international military presence.
Moreover, while Hamas’s long truce with Israel shows that it may be willing to abandon violence given the right amount of persuasion, it can make itself a terrible nuisance if it continues to be excluded.
International peacekeepers should enforce such a truce.
Syria’s violence might have ended years ago had it not been for meddling by some of the very players now pushing hardest for a truce.
But earlier this month – on the same night Xi and Trump struck a 90-day trade truce – Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of the Chinese tech giant Huawei, was arrested in Canada at the behest of the US.
In 1991, after a 16-year conflict, the UN managed to broker a truce between the two parties, which included an immediate ceasefire.
It is as if, paradoxically, Israelis had internalized the concept of “temporary truce” advocated by their Hamas adversary, and had given up the goal of peace through a two-state solution that they once pursued with the Palestinian Authority.
But Ukraine still lacks full control of its borders and a reliable truce in Donbas.
Even if all of the kidnapped girls are returned safely, as a truce between the group and Nigeria’s government stipulates, there are still 15 million children under the age of 14 worldwide who are forced to work, often in appallingly exploitative environments.
This happened after the first Chechen campaign (1994-1996), but the peace that ensued was merely an armed truce.
In the US, President Barack Obama and Congressional Republicans have for now agreed on a truce to avoid the threat of another government shutdown over the need to raise the debt ceiling.
In advance of the negotiation, the Economic Committee of the League drafted a convention for a two-year customs truce.
Indeed, the Prophet Mohammad’s most important political truce, the Hodibiah Agreement between his rising nation and the leaders of Quraish (the dominant tribe in Mecca at that time), stated clearly that “everybody is free to join the league of Mohammad or the league of Quraish.”
Today, the US is running surpluses and is seeing a rapidly falling debt ratio while Germany, by contrast, has just negotiated a truce called the Waigel Pact.
Of course, like previous ceasefires, any truce is likely to be temporary, inevitably undermined by the forces that perpetuate Israel’s armed conflict with Hamas.
Such a truce is possible.
But it has turned the “strategic truce” favored by many Arab leaders into the only conceivable alternative.
Meanwhile, the stock market’s entire gains for the year were wiped out as Trump’s supposed trade truce with China fell apart.
Hamas apparently did not envision a full-scale confrontation with Israel when it refused to renew a six-month truce.
With Gaza suffering under a lengthy siege, Hamas leader Khalid Mashal said that there was no point in a new truce, since the old one had “failed to lift the siege on Gaza.”
Abbas will be able to argue that he advised Hamas to renew the truce and to end its missile fire on Israeli towns, but that Hamas insisted on exposing Palestinian civilians to devastation.
Palestinians will recognize Hamas’s acceptance of a multi-year truce with Israel as a sign of defeat, which would also underscore Palestinian feelings of humiliation and abandonment.
To be sure, even if, beginning today, we start working for such a lasting truce, there will inevitably be further days of war ahead.
This is one reason why Trump might choose to prolong the truce with the EU agreed in July.
By leaving Pinchuk off this list, Yushchenko may be hinting that he wants a truce with Ukraine's most powerful magnate should he become president.
Morsi’s timing was remarkable: the day after winning international acclaim for his successful efforts to broker a truce in Gaza, he staged a frontal assault on Egypt’s nascent democracy.
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