Gaza ceasefire agreed but so fragile

When there's a deal in the Middle East, you can never be absolutely sure it will hold or even start when it's supposed to. So fragile and precarious is Benjamin Netanyahu's control of political power in Israel, that the ceasefire and hostage-release agreement, forged after 15 long months of brutal war in Gaza, is hanging in the balance. Netanyahu's coalition with two extreme right political figures could collapse because the most exreme of all is threatening to resign and bring the government down. Washington is still convinced the deal will go through, that the Israeli cabinet will approve the ceasefire, but it's going to take a night of arguing and persuasion to make it happen. But even if the cabinet says yes, the initial six-week ceasefire will every day be a shaky affair. But for the sake of the Palestinian people and for the families of the 100 hostages still being held, alive and dead, by Hamas, the deal has to survive. There is no other way. And if Netanyahu's government collapses, and he loses his job, so be it.