The appetite in Washington for a full-scale return to Middle East peace-making may be limited.
So the two sides are now committed to pressing ahead with peace-making after seven weeks of complete calm.
This inhibits all peace-making, including Mr Barak's ploy of playing the Syrians against the Palestinians and vice versa.
If it remains as benign as it appears now, it could play a decisive peace-making role in an increasingly fiery continent.
Take one important example: for some years now, America has ensured that no big peacekeeping, let alone open-ended peace-making, missions are undertaken.
Mr Sharon seems to be holding out hope that America will allow him to defer any serious effort at peace-making far into the future.
Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Jordan's King Hussein and now Yasser Arafat appreciated the crucial role of public opinion, with all its fickleness and sentimentality, in Israeli peace-making.
We can expect to see this doctrine in full flower during the President's forays this week into Middle East peace-making, nuclear disarmament and reordering the world economic system.
Arafat also told reporters that he appreciated Belgium's peace-making efforts.
There was indeed talk in Luxembourg of invoking Mr Blair's miraculous peace-making skills on May 2nd and 3rd, when European leaders meet to confirm the participants in the euro.
There was no official confirmation, but the second Clinton administration plainly is not turning its back on Israeli-Palestinian peace-making, as some had feared and others, hardliners on each side, secretly hope.
The Secretary General will present detailed plans for the "peace-making force" at the beginning of February and, pending Security Council approval, the aim is to get troops on the ground within three months.
Mrs Albright wisely began her stay in Israel by visiting victims of the bombings in a Jerusalem hospital, together with President Ezer Weizman, a strong supporter of Oslo who urged the Americans to be more intrusive in their peace-making.
"What comes through powerfully in the film is their sense that the best they can do is create some political space for others, the political elite, to step in to do what must be done, " remarked Daniel Levy of the European Council of Foreign Policy, who's had extensive experience in Israeli-Palestinian peace-making.
While the Center remains hopeful that such a step will not be necessary, it strongly believes that an express U.S. willingness to do so is becoming increasingly necessary to get the Serbs' attention, to parry the Russian "covert veto" and to shame the Europeans into providing their own sizeable peace-making forces -- before countless thousands more perish needlessly.
At that time President Musharraf had become a valued US ally in the fight against al-Qaeda and was making peace with nuclear-armed rival India.
And with this spirit, we are -- trust that we are capable to achieve our historical, difficult mission -- making peace in the land of peace.
Assad runs a dynastic, tyrannical system, which has survived for decades not by making peace, but by making big trouble--punctuated by deals in which Syria practices its own variation on North Korea's rich repertoire of threats, talks and extortion.
One thing is certain: making peace in Nagorno-Karabakh requires the skill of walking over a minefield.
She's got Gwen Stefani's just-a-girl strut down on ''You Can't Win, '' a punchy guitar rave-up about making peace with your inner walking disaster.
Despite the terrible consequences of conflict for many women, it is shortsighted to see women simply as the victims of conflict, and to ignore their essential role in conflict prevention and resolution, peace-building, and decision-making.
Now they seem to believe that staying in for more months of peace-process paralysis, with Mr Barak making Mr Netanyahu's excuses, may doom their already shrunken party to terminal demise.
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Governments have bought social peace by pouring cash into overstaffed, loss-making sugar companies.
They want a stable peace to minimise the danger of Taleban-style militancy making more inroads into Pakistan itself.
Now, the Lebanese government's making a fresh move to secure peace -an offer to dispatch 15, 000 army troops to South Lebanon, along with U.N. sponsored forces, so long as Israeli forces withdraw.
Not only did the PLO-led PA spend the six years between 1994 and 2000, in which it was supposedly making peace with Israel, indoctrinating Palestinian society to hate Jews and seek their destruction through jihadist-inspired terrorism.
He has to say something on the "peace process" and we all wait agog for any news-making pronouncement.
The EU has pledged to prioritize helping find a political solution to the crisis, so all thoughts should now turn to making the U.S.-Russia brokered peace conference, scheduled for mid-June, in Geneva, a success.
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