Any peace is worth it.

"Hamas freed the last living Israeli hostages from Gaza on Monday (13 October) under a ceasefire deal and Israel sent home busloads of Palestinian detainees, as US President Donald Trump declared the end of the two-year long war that has upended the broader Middle East." Reuters. However, "Trump has said that his 20-point plan for Gaza does not guarantee a two-state solution for the creation of the state of Palestine." "While there has been a growing international recognition of the state of Palestine, with 157 of the 193 UN member states, it is not recognized by both Israel and the US." TIE. "In 1974, India became the first Non-Arab state to recognize the Palestinian Organization (PLO) as the sole and legitimate representative of the Palestinian people. In 1988, India became one of the first countries to recognize the Palestinian state." Representative office of India. The problem is, "There was no such thing as Palestinians. When was there an independent Palestinian people with a Palestinian state? It was either southern Syria before the First World War and then it was Palestine including Jordan," said former Prime Minister of Israel Golda Meir. A unified Palestinian state, with one government, seems impossible because Gaza is on the west of Israel while the West Bank is on the east. Map. There is precedence. In 1947, West Pakistan was carved out of Punjab while East Pakistan was carved out of Bengal, with India in between. wikipedia. Lasted just 24 years, as East Pakistan became Bangladesh in 1971. wikipedia. The West Bank is governed by Fatah, the party of Yasser Arafat, and Mahmoud Abbas is the president. wikipedia. Gaza is controlled by Hamas, which is an offshoot of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, a terrorist organization, and is in conflict with Fatah. wikipedia. The 20-point peace plan promises amnesty and free passage to all Hamas members who disarm and asks "Hamas and other factions agree to not have any role in the governance of Gaza directly, indirectly, or in any form." wikipedia. Hamas can never agree to that. If Hamas members disarm completely they may be attacked by ordinary Palestinians who may blame them for loss of loved ones and hardship they had to endure. Arab states are monarchies and will not want trained terrorists on their soil. "Even as key Arab states condemned the war in the Gaza strip, they quietly expanded security cooperation with the Israeli military, leaked US documents reveal." ICIJ. Although the peace deal prohibits the Isaeli army from any operation in Gaza, it does not mean that Israel will forgive those it feels were responsible for the horrific attacks on 7 October 2023. (Britannica). Hamas members will be familiar with Operation Wrath of God (wikipedia) in which the Mossad killed members of the Black September terrorists responsible for the Munich massacre of Israeli athletes. Ehud Barak, later prime minister of Israel, famously disguised himself as a Muslim woman to kill Palestinian operatives inside Beirut. Y net news. So, will the peace last? Probably not. But, it is still worth it.