All wars are not bound to end sooner than later. The bulk of Gaza has been cleared. Hamas is in no position to mount an offensive response. They're on the ropes, so to speak.

Compare that to WW2 where despite nearly 5 yrs of intense combat, the fighting was so intense in the Pacific that it took atomic bombs, several months later, to convince the last of the Axis, Japan, to sign and 'sing.'

I think I'm now confused as to what you're trying to say. My point above was that stopping the fighting was a significant accomplishment, if indeed the current agreement ends up stopping the fighting. That this war still had years left in it. I thought you were saying that this war was already over, so it's not a big deal to stop it - but your point above about Japan is more in line with what I was saying than what I thought your point was. Japan basically lost WW2 at least a year and a half before they surrendered - if someone had been able to broker the end of the war in the Pacific in mid-1944, that would have been a massive and important accomplishment.

It doesn't matter that Hamas was in no position to mount an "offensive response." As long as they held hostages, Israel was going to keep fighting to try to get them back. As long as Israel kept fighting, Hamas would keep winning (in their eyes) in the court of global opinion. Both sides had all the incentive to keep fighting and fighting, for quite a long time.

If the current proposal ends up interrupting that, it will be a huge accomplishment - and Trump (and his team) will deserve credit for making it happen.