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For those who don't know who Bill Burns is, the choice to send him probably has little to do with his position as director of the CIA, and more to do with his experience as an accomplished diplomat. The following is from his Wikipedia article.

In 1994, Burns was named to Time's lists of "50 Most Promising American Leaders Under Age 40" and "100 Most Promising Global Leaders Under Age 40".[49] He was named Foreign Policy's "Diplomat of the Year" in 2013.[50] He is the recipient of Anti-Defamation League's Distinguished Statesman Award (2014),[51] the Middle East Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award (2014), and the American Academy of Diplomacy's Annenberg Award for Diplomatic Excellence (2015).[52] Burns received the American Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award (2022).[53][54]

I'm not going to speculate on his odds of success, but his selection for this role is an indication of the seriousness of the Biden Administration in trying to make it work.

They still are, probably. But they also were.

In 2019 during the great march of return [...] During the so-called ceasefire Israel’s war on Gaza never ended.

This would be a more compelling point had you not cited yet another border incursion by Hamas into Israeli territory, wouldn't it?

A lasting ceasefire means that both sides must cease fire, border incursions and other blatant provocations. (It wouldn't hurt to cut down on the militant rhetoric too, but I digress...)

If South Koreans or North Koreans decided tomorrow to march thousands into the Korean DMZ, what do you think the other side would do as a response? Do you suppose that it might rapidly escalate into a very dangerous situation for both sides?

The bottom line is that there was relative peace and stability on October 6th, and then on October 7th, something happened that undeniably made the conflict worse for everyone. There is not an innocent person in the Levant whose life is better post-October 7th, and Hamas are to blame and thus cannot be trusted by any rational mind to preserve future ceasefires.

There is a long history of militant border incursions on Israeli territory going all the way back to the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and they always backfire when Israel fights back, which is why Gaza's borders are as they are today. Gaza was 3-4x bigger and controlled over half of the Egyptian border before the Arab League very unwisely chose to invade Israel in 1948.

One would think that the Palestinians would figure out by now that militant provocations against Israel are not the path to a better life. They only embolden Netenyahu's government, which has historically thrived on demonizing Hamas. Hamas' Islamist jihad and Netenyahu's right-wing fascism have been mutually fueling the cause of political extremism in the Middle East, and that's why they are in the situation that we see today.

Unfortunately, neither side is run by political leaders who want peace, only power. And so, unless Israeli and Palestinian leadership changes, I feel that we won't see a long-term ceasefire or lasting peace in our lifetimes.