After decades of war, peace talk efforts, and terrorism, Israel and Palestine still do not agree on what is keeping peace out of their grasp. Yet, they continue to fight and 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, ride on a bus, or walk into a restaurant. Palestinians, on the other hand, see no peace with the creation of a Palestinian state. Their peace will come with the acquisition of their own land. Is there a way for each of the two sides to find their peace?
             Israelis feel that they have come to an impasse. They have not felt safe in their own country for decades, and yet, they see no end to the fighting. They do not see peace anywhere in sight. While Israelis would like to believe that with the help of the United States, an agreement will be reached, very few would actually admit that they see it as a viable solution to their seemingly never-ending struggles. In an article about the need for a new sort of peace movement, David Newman, the chair of the department of politics and government at Ben Gurion University in Israel, expresses his opinion that he lives in "an era in which we feel threatened on our street, in which we no longer feel in control of anything, an era in which we are no longer even sure of our independence and our ability to last the conflict out." He not only sees a conflict with the Palestinians but a conflict within the Israeli Left and Right wing as well.
             Newman expresses his concern of the "hatred" in the eyes of the right wing community when they look at him and hear his concerns that a peace must be reached. Yet, Newman understands that even these right-wingers must want "an end to warfare and bloodshed," which is why Israelis agreed to the Oslo Agreements in 1993 and 1995. Now, eight years after the agreements, while Israelis had felt that t...