An end to the Troubles?

From the Guardian:

This is what will happen today and over the rest of this month. Elections will anoint Ariel Sharon, miraculously resurrected from his coma, as Israel’s prime minister. They will also establish Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas as his deputy. These two men, mortal enemies for so long, will govern together. The finance ministry will stay in Likud hands, but the education minister will be a veteran of Hamas’s armed wing, a man who once served several years in jail for his part in a lethal bombing. After decades spent fighting
each other to the death, these two movements will now share power, spending the next year or two arguing about school admissions and local water rates. Their long war is over.