Sometimes there is an inevitability about outcomes once a path has been started.

It doesn't have to be because of control. Quite often the more bleak outlook is to recognise the control has been lost in a situation.

The question is how do you get control back?

It isn't to pretend a ceasefire and a repeat of the previous 80yrs restores us to 'normality' because the 'normality' is what keeps bringing us back here.

Both sides use every ceasefire to further their own cause. They do it because of the history. We cannot change the history. So what next?