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Out of crisis comes opportunity, which describes the current brief lull in the war between Israel and the Palestinian resistance movements in Gaza. Rather than just trying to calm things down, now is the moment for the international community to push hard diplomatically for more serious negotiations, on the basis of a new, more credible, balance of power.

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