After decades of war, peace talk efforts and terrorism, Israel and Palestine still do not agree upon what is holding peace out of their grasps. Yet, they continue to fight, and continue to disagree. They continue to fight because they are fighting for two distinct classifications of peace. Israel wants safety; to live in a land where they can be unafraid to walk down the street, or ride on a bus, or walk into a …showed first 75 words of 1376 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1376 total…and funerals” without the realization that peace is necessary. Benedictus De Spinoza, an ancient Jewish philosopher also commented on the path to peace. “Peace is not merely absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character.” The future is open as to when the Israelis and the Palestinians can realize that it does not take character to shoot a gun; it takes character to put the gun down and shake hands.