I think it would have reached the ceasefire point if the shooting around of rockets had stopped. At least Blinken and Qatar (and I believe Egypt too?) keep trying. Netanyahu keeps resisting, but without further reasons to give, I think USA could force him into a ceasefire.
I also strongly agree with te PP that says there is money to be had in terrorism. It becomes a way of life for some of these guys, which have no morals, whatsoever. It starts as a resistant movement, then fails to move with the change in circumstances, fails to grasp opportunities for peace, then enters the top killing, total senseless stage, till civilians stand up and say that was it, that was enough.
This is what I have learnt from the terrorism in my country of origin, Spain and ETA. ETA fought against a fully democratic Estate where their part of the country had a parlament and full rights, for more than 20 years, during which they killed police, bombed police accomodation- including families with children, kidnapped business people for large amounts of money, kidnapped regular citizens as punishment to the collective- keeping them in horrible horrible conditions, executed young nembers of political parties, placed a bomb in a shopping centre killing over 300 random innocent citizens..... It started as a militia movement resisting the oppression, jailing and execution of their nationals under a fascist dictatorship, which killed them for speaking and writing in their native language and refusing to bow down to the dictatorship. Quite the change, isn't it?
See Lebanon and Hezbolah. Lebanon is in such a dear financial situation. Yet, all these rockets must cost quite a lot. If Hezbolah is meant to protect Lebanon, maybe they should avoid shooting rockets towards Israel- they did this before the attrocies in Gaza, not only after....
All the political and armed parties in this conflict need to leave (preferably to jail for life); they are clearly useless and, furthermore, extremely dangerous to their people. That is for Hamas, Hezbolah and Israel. Iran needs to mind their own business, which they have plenty of to worry about. Many of their own people fiercely opposes the Islamic Republic, so they really should be focusing on being nicer to the iranian people.
Today, I am really concerned about Israel going into Lebanon on the ground. Rockets is bad enough, it needs to stop, both ways. But a ground offensive? That is terrifying, seeing how Gaza looks today.
All these deaths only fuel the hate among them further, feeding into the terrorists recruitment pond; more combatants, more weapons, bigger attacks, more deaths....