Key Palestinian spokesmen like Saeb Erekat have declared the death of the peace process and called for the renewal of the jihad against Israel.
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It says Mr Sharon is bent on dealing a "death blow" to peace, while the Laborites "may wish to give peace with the Palestinians a chance", by sending a signal they are against settlement expansion.
The opposite was the result, for with Lincoln's death, the possibility of peace with magnanimity died.
But Israel's peace camp, led by Mr Barak, accused Mr Netanyahu, during his time as prime minister, of choking the peace process to death.
When Mr Blair was prime minister, such negotiations revolved around epic issues the search for an entirely new political dispensation, how to defang heavily armed groups, war and peace, life and death.
Haskell, may he rest in peace, demanded a daily death march at breakneck speed.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said the death could be a turning point for peace if the Palestinians "ceased terrorism" and waged a "war on terror".
Justice of the Peace John Logan passed the death sentence on the dog last month following a complaint from Mr Shaw's neighbour who said Sam's barking over many years was a nuisance.
In other words, if John sacrifices himself now for something he now values (such as the end of a war), then after death he might not continue valuing the peace he sacrificed himself to achieve.
Mr Beye, a Malian who had devoted five years to bringing peace to Angola, had concluded a few weeks before his death that there was nothing more he could do for a country whose leaders were not interested in peace.
Expecting that a new page will be opened by Arafat's death means thinking that the only obstacle to peace was Arafat.
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He was allowed out for the talks, and the Sierra Leonean government has indicated that it will annul the death sentence but only if the peace talks succeed.
Several journalists, human-rights workers and intellectuals have been murdered this year, in some cases apparently by a right-wing death squad linked to dissident military officers opposed to peace.
Given that there is no chance that Israeli territorial giveaways will lead to a peaceful Palestinian state, the question arises, is there any way to compel American politicians to give up their fantasies of fancy signing ceremonies in the White House Rose Garden that far from bringing peace, engender radicalism, instability and death?
This inviolate "death and taxes" truth sustained me--a peace-loving granny, a tree-hugging liberal--through 64 years of protected, upper-middle-class subsistence.
Making matters worse, the United Nations mission, which has the thankless task of trying to keep peace alive, is totally disoriented after the death on June 26th of its chief, Alioune Blondin Beye.
At this Easter season, British and Irish leaders have followed the admonition of Luke to give light to them who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death and to guide their feet into the way of peace.
On the political issues those matters of war and peace, and in some cases of life and death we trusted the judgment of our national leaders.
With a half century of total war ending and something like peace breaking out politics loses its life-and-death drama.
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But the death last week of Mr Nyerere casts doubt on the prospects for peace, which had already been badly undermined by violence.
Nursing professor Karen Kehl, in an article called "Moving Toward Peace: An Analysis of the Concept of a Good Death, " ranked the attributes of a graceful death, among them: being comfortable and in control, having a sense of closure, making the most of relationships and having family involved in care.
Mr Diallo has been sent to fill the vacuum left by the death of the previous mediator, Alioune Blondin Beye, and to steer the peace process back on to solid ground.
"It is important that his death does not derail efforts to engage with those willing to renounce violence and work towards peace, " he said on 18 October 2011.
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While many of my colleagues still label these groups as militants (rather than death-worshipping terror cults), most Gazan youth have been so thoroughly indoctrinated that seeking peace with them would be like asking Americans to negotiate with al-Qaeda.
With Rabin's death, the prospects for improved relations with Syria and Lebanon, considered the next phase in the peace process, have dimmed.
The day an Israeli government accepts the plan - which again will form the basis of the Obama "peace conference" - is the day that the State of Israel signs its own death warrant.
The death of Unita leader Jonas Savimbi in a gunfight with government forces in February 2002 raised the prospect of peace and the army and rebels signed a ceasefire in April to end the conflict.
On Friday the yanis still adorns Queen Noor al Hussein, 47, as she steps into the sitting room of her family home, Bab al Salaam (Door of Peace), to speak with a reporter for the first time since her husband's death.
After yet another abortive United Nations peace initiative, Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said recently he feared the country might bleed to death.
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