Amid deeply distressing war rhetoric that ‘whole civilization will die tonight’, the world woke up to an incredibly surprising announcement; a conditional two-week ceasefire. The way war rhetoric was going up, and the way actual battleground was heating up, this announcement was more than unexpected. The world listened to this with a sense of disbelief. Underneath this surprise and disbelief is a suppressed wave of jubilation that waits for expression only if the ceasefire really holds and the warring sides sit on the negotiating........

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