And so, in advance of a five-day trip to Europe in which the Middle East will be a topic of acute interest, I chose to speak about what peace will require.
"What the peace process was about" for the Clinton administration was signing peace agreements.
So you might imagine what the peace movement was saying behind closed doors.
Every time there was a behavior, or an incident, or an event that was inconsistent with what the peace process was about, the impulse was to rationalize it, finesse it, find a way around it, and not to allow it to break the process.
Certainly, there is no unity on what a lasting peace with the Palestinians should be.
But you have to ask: what sort of peace for those ancient sites?
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What kind of peace is mostly out of the hands of U.S. troops and officials, but still there is a feeling in Tuzla that only America can accomplish whatever that peace will be.
We keep what enhances our peace.
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But acceptance will finally come as I make peace with what I know can't be changed.
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Finally, what about the long peace that has held among the great powers for the better part of six decades?
They fear a repetition of what happened in previous peace talks, when Farc members ended up being extradited after the negotiations.
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That included military space programs, which experts believed would be required to preserve the peace during what was expected to be a prolonged period of diminished tensions.
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"You're high enough that you're sort of separated and you feel kind of away, and at peace with what's going on in the city around you, " says Mr. Blesso.
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Israelis are prepared to do a lot to get that peace in place, but they want to make sure that after all the steps they take, that what we get is a secure peace.
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It is not for the United States to determine what the terms of this peace will be.
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The most intriguing sections are those in which Mr Shlaim assesses what went wrong with the peace process.
During peace time, what role can cyberspace play in promoting national objectives and how will DOD cyberspace operations contribute?
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One teacher has what she calls a "peace circle" each week where students can talk about anything that's bothering them.
Only a small part of the site will include the new peace centre and what remains of the former jail.
Analysts have suggested the attack could have been an attempt to derail a nascent peace process in what is one of the Middle East's longest-running conflicts.
The calculation appears to be that frank words about what would be needed for peace was possible because he had worked hard to establish his credentials as Israel's friend.
If we are to avoid a far more dangerous international environment for Americans and their interests in the future, we must elect a president next year who has what it takes to pursue peace through strength.
One of the those Arab officials at the meeting, the Egyptian Finance Minister Medhat Hassanein, said afterwards in a BBC interview that a Middle East and US free trade area, even one including Israel, is a eventually a possibility, but only if there is first what he called a just peace in the region.
What we all want is a peace that will be genuine, that will hold, that will endure.
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