The “Understanding Regarding Ceasefire in Gaza Strip” runs only one page
and, even counting headings, just 24 lines. But it’s what flickered between
those lines that appears to account for the vastly different demeanors of the
enemies agreeing to it.
Both Israel and Hamas vowed to
stop the shooting that has gone on in and around Gaza for eight days, leaving
more than 160 people dead — mostly Palestinians, five of them Israelis. Yet a
somber air clung to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he announced the
cessation of hostilities from Jerusalem. In contrast, while facing the cameras
in Cairo, Hamas chairman Khaled Meshaal was almost as animated as the streets of
Gaza City, which were ecstatic with the sound of celebratory
gunfire.
Read more: http://world.time.com/2012/11/21/who-won-in-gaza-body-language-and-the-ceasefire/#ixzz2Ctw1ZBH8