In practice, America's main policy aim in Israel will switch not from engagement to disengagement, but from peace making to damage limitation.
The localization of these understandings in turn opens up a whole new set of options for Westerners and particularly for Israelis in seeking ways to contend with the region's pathologies that involve policies less sweeping than grand, yet futile designs of peace making, or fundamental restructuring of the social compacts of Arab societies.
And his Facebook page shows off a photo of him as a young man with Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for making peace with Israel before he was assassinated for the historic outreach.
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.
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.
Ms Kalonji called the attention of Member States and other actors on the need to make water an instrument of peace, making use of this International Year to promote actions on Water Cooperation at all levels.
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.
Making peace is hard enough, but tackling the underlying causes of war is even harder.
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Al Gore received a Nobel Peace Prize for making the world aware of a crisis.
In 1999 Mitchell published a book, "Making Peace, " on the negotiations in Northern Ireland.
One thing is certain: making peace in Nagorno-Karabakh requires the skill of walking over a minefield.
Both companies must have realized that they have a common interest in making peace.
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Goran Matic, a senior Yugoslav minister-without-portfolio in Yugoslavia's federal government, called the plan "the first step" to making peace.
Egypt is the biggest country in the Middle East and has been our staunchest ally there, even making peace with Israel.
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.
He said making peace would be a "hard slog" but he wanted to listen to both sides rather than come with any big announcement.
The U.S. State Department confirmed last night that it has indeed sent out invitations to a conference on making peace in the Middle East.
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 they have based their plans for making peace by establishing a Palestinian state on the assumption that the Palestinians are interested in statehood.
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