A full peace is a peace that brings the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians to an end by an agreement in which both sides relinquish all further claims against each other in return for what they get in the agreement. It requires dealing with the Palestinian demands for Jerusalem and for a right of return. Full peace can probably only be made with a Palestinian state, because only a state would have sufficient authority to relinquish all Palestinian claims against Israel. A partial peace is an agreement to end particular forms of conflict for the time being, even though one or both sides insists that it does not accept the current working arrangements as just or permanent, and reserves the right to make every effort to change them, except for the particular kinds of conflict that they agree to forego in the partial peace agreement. This is not a distinction between permanent and temporary peace because there is no way to make a permanent peace.
Any peace has to be seen as temporary until time proves otherwise.
Until all the countries in the Middle East become more like those of North America or Western Europe, something that may take generations, no peace is reliable unless it is sustained by a recognized Israeli ability to defeat any attacks against it. Nevertheless, even a temporary end to the conflict would permanently change its nature. The distinction between full peace and partial peace was not strongly articulated in the discussions related to Oslo and, in fact, there are contradictory implications concerning this issue in the negotiations of the previous government. Both full peace and partial peace can be pursued by the Netanyahu government with approaches that are fully compatible with the Oslo agreements, but substantially different from those of the Peres government. One way to express the principle of full peace i.e., that in making their agreement the parties relinquish all further claims against the other is to include in the agreement a provision in which the Palestinian state agrees to assume any Israeli liability to any Palestinian on the date of the agreement, in return for Israel assuming any liability that the Palestinian state might have to any Israeli for past actions.