And with this spirit, we are -- trust that we are capable to achieve our historical, difficult mission -- making peace in the land of peace.
In fact, polls continue to show that a solid majority of Israeli Jews favours a peace based on exchanging land for peace, dismantling many settlements, making room for an independent Palestine in the West Bank and Gaza and sharing Jerusalem.
Traditionally, the U.S. government has supported Israeli bids to make peace with the Palestinians based on the paradigm of land for peace.
Thanks to you, there are fewer arms flowing into Macedonia and a hope for peace in that land.
And not far from here, at Rhone, some of them rest in peace in the land that they liberated.
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Our shared interest is in building peace in a war-torn land -- a peace that provides no safe haven for violent extremists, and that provide hope for the Afghan people.
While most Americans are home safe, warm and eating turkey, those of us on Operation Joint Endeavor will be keeping the peace in a land where many people still want to kill their neighbors.
And now we are watching the Bush Administration prescribe "land for peace" as the tonic that will cure what ails the Middle East.
He called on the international community to reach a "just and final peace in the Holy Land", and encouraged Palestinians to seek political reconciliation.
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the spiritual leader of Shas, one of Israel's religious parties, has long indicated that he would be in favour of giving up land for peace.
The phrase "land for peace" is interesting in itself.
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Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said the mission was prompted by the pontiff's "desire for peace in the Holy Land and his concern for the Christian community and the Israeli and Palestinian peoples".
It would be sombre news indeed, not only for Mr Adams but for all those who have hoped and worked so long to lead Northern Ireland into the promised land of peace and compromise.
The counter view is that sooner or later, though probably later if at all, the two sides will reach exhaustion and will seek a solution, the outlines of which have been apparent for years - land for peace.
Regardless of who is in office, the likes of Brom, Dekel and Spiegel and their leader Yossi Beilin are always working with the Americans and Europeans to force Israel to maintain allegiance to the failed land for peace paradigm.
Mr Netanyahu's government believes it can get peace without giving up much land.
We do know that peace cannot come to a land that has known so much war without a political settlement.
But these measures will not bring peace to an increasingly dangerous land.
That is, the DOP addressed land but not peace.
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But he does not appear to think, as many do, that this was because they thought Srebrenica could not be held and that it would be better to lose it in war than give it up at the peace table in exchange for land elsewhere.
Olmert's offer, which Abbas rejected, involved a "land swap, " in which in the framework of a comprehensive peace deal, Israel would give the Palestinians land from within its 1949 boundaries in exchange for land in Judea and Samaria that Israel would permanently retain.
But many, probably most, would reluctantly agree to leave if a land-for-peace deal with Syria were available.
Various U.N. resolutions, numerous shuttle diplomacy missions and the Oslo process have all been predicated on the land-for-peace proposition.
On Wednesday he nodded towards those who don't like where it is, saying: "Peace must come to the Holy Land".
Unlike Barak's voters, Netanyahu's voters know that the discredited land-for-peace paradigm has failed, and they will reward Netanyahu for speaking the truth.
Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the far-right Yisrael Beiteinu party, says he is opposed to the principle of "land-for-peace", on which the two-state solution is based.
"When I started Ithaca Hours, I thought I was releasing money like doves of peace that would fly around and land on people's shoulders, " he says.
Mr Netanyahu had explicitly rejected the land-for-peace principle that drove the process: his achievement, he claimed, would be to give Israel security without divesting it of land.
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