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The peace process describes efforts by interested parties to effect a lasting solution to long-running conflicts, such as in Northern Ireland (see Belfast Agreement) or the Arab-Israeli conflict.

In the Middle East, various solutions have been offered, and some tried.

Jimmy Carter, Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat worked together to create an official peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, which ended the formal state of war between the two nations.

The Oslo accords was a later framework between the Palestinian Authority and the State of Israel.

Many groups and individuals have created projects working for peace among Israelis and Arabs, most of which have as one of their goals overcoming religious prejudice.

The term "peace process" as it is generally used, (referring to Middle East conflicts), the neutrality of parties who may use the term is often suspect. In 2000, when American, PalestinianPalestinian flag, adopted in 1948, is a widely recognized modern symbol of the Palestinian people. Palestinian While there are various older or different definitions of "Palestinian" (discussed in Definitions of Palestine#Palestinian), the overwhelming ma and Israeli leaders met at Camp DavidThe Naval Support Facility Thurmont popularly known as Camp David is the rustic 125 acre (0. 5 kmē) mountain retreat of the President of the United States. Camp David is part of the Catoctin Mountain Park recreational area in Frederick County, Maryland, o to attempt to "bring peace" to the current (then current, and now continuing) hostilities, the social critic Noam ChomskyAvram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an Institute Professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and creator of the Chomsky hierarchy, a classification of formal languages. His works in generative linguistics contributed si recalled the history of American escalation of hostilities in region: The "no negotiations" policy of KissingerHenry (Heinz) Alfred Kissinger (born May 27, 1923) is a German-born American diplomat and Nobel Peace Prize winner who played an important part in foreign affairs through the positions he held in several Republican administrations between 1969 and 1977. towards Sadat's Egypt in favor of violence over peace. (See [1]). He remarked:

"Any discussion of what is called a "peace process" - whether the one underway at Camp David or any other - should keep in mind the operative meaning of the phrase: by definition, the "peace process" is whatever the US government happens to be pursuing." - 1

After the eruption of the al-Aqsa IntifadaThe al-Aqsa or Second Intifada is the intifada (the wave of violence and political conflict) that began in 2000 between Israel and the Palestinians. The IDF codenamed it " " ("Ebb and Tide events") but it is unofficially referred to as the Oslo War in som and wave of mass suicide bombings the Israeli usage in term "peace process" have decreased significantly. A more neutral Hebrew term " התהליך המדיני " ("The international political process") is used by the Israeli media, where "peace process" is often used in irony.



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