They want to be full citizens in a land where they can vote and own property. The people of Israel say all they want is a place where they can live in safety. Both sides will fight, and die, for what they believe, just as generations have died before them. Peace is not coming easily in the Middle East. It never has.
Peace never comes easily.
We simply hope that the strife and the violence that is prevalent in countless places around the world like the Middle East will someday lead to a lasting peace. We pray that enemies will become former enemies, maybe even friends. They will sit down together, maybe share a meal. Their children will not learn about war through personal experience but by reading history books. It seems like when peace does come easily, it usually doesn't last.