The time for peace will be soon be here

For those of you who do not follow world politics, Israeli Prime minister Ehud Barak faced a no-confidence vote this past week, surviving to continue his trek to the peace conference at Camp David.

His coalition of forces in the government split after hearing that the Prime minister would be traveling to the United States to talk peace with the Palestinians. The entire conference has come under scrutiny saying that it is no use to talk when both sides are so far from accomplishing an agreement.

However, even though both sides have a lot of giving to do and will not receive all of their goals, both sides should be applauded for even coming to the conference.

When a person and a neighbor are in a fight about something, they don't solve it by not speaking to each other. They sit down and talk out their problems. The exact same thing that mom used to say is the same thing that Barak and Palestinian leader Yassar Arafat are doing at Camp David. Dialogue can help a lot more than people can realize.

President Clinton, who will try to push for an agreement this week, should realize that an agreement might not be the best thing possible at this point. With Barak's followers starting to become the minority in Israel, a peace agreement might not be highly popular with the other lawmakers. What Clinton should do is recognize that the best thing to do is to make both sides be eager for peace. With more information of each other's sides and more dialogue, the door to peace could be opening a little bit wider.

Both sides have said they would make a settlement by mid-September, when Arafat said that he will declare a Palestinian state. That could be a drastic move, with a little bit more than one half of the Israeli government opposed to concessions with the Palestinians.

What the Clinton administration needs to do is to recognize future goals and not those directly effected with this conference. The time is not right now for the peace accord. Lawmakers in Israel have made it quite clear that they don't agree with Barak, but the time for peace is coming. This is just one of many steps that the two groups of people will face.