e jiegypt might have the best chance of brokering a cease-fire to stop the war happening. if you hear that and feels like deja vu, i've heard all of this before, you right because this really does keep happening over and over and over again. but that doesn't mean that it has to happen forever. and it also means that there is a really useful set of information to us available from the recent past about how this kind of fighting stops. how this fighting, these bombardments, these exchanges of rockets, these kidnappings, these wars. how they stop. ban ki-moon and john kerry and the egyptians are at the tip of the diplomatic sphere in terms of trying to secure a cease-fire, and neither side, neither hamas nor israel right now says they're particularly interested in a cease-fire right now, but that is how this will end. the only question is when. and how many people have to die in the meantime. and we know that because of the cease-fire that stopped the terrible fighting in gaza in 2006. in november 2006. and then after the fighting started again, we know that in