"Opposing sides sit down at the table after one of them has defeated the other in a war."

Noone defeated the other side in Northern Ireland. Both sides realised that if they didn't find a way of stopping the fighting it would go on for ever.

Not a perfect peace, not a safe peace - but a peace of sorts. And if there is going to be an end to the bloodshed in the Holy Land, that is how it's going to come, not through the stronger side crushing the weaker side until the violence stops, because that is never going to work.