Will Peace Come to Israel?

The new president was the dawn of a new age of Israel. The former Israeli President Peres led the Oslo peace agreement by establishing the Palestinian Authority and withdrawal of Israeli forces from the occupied territories. So the following year he received the Nobel Peace Prize.

But Israel’s hard-right opposed to the Israel and Palestine’s peaceful coexistence agreement that is the basic premise of the Oslo Accords. And they exhibited extremely violent way when their government represented some conciliatory gesture. Even, the late Prime Minister Rabin who was the protagonist of the Oslo Accords was assassinated by a hard-right organization.

A hard- right president was elected in the last Israeli presidential election while America represented a strong stance for Palestine.

Israel’s Knesset Parliament elects the President. It is different to Korea’s direct election. Israeli President elected by the Israeli Knesset is mainly practicing the authority of the Protocol, and the prime powers such as military command are concentrated to the Minister. But any political party did not prevail, so the president also exercised a decisive influence.

Reuven Rivlin was elected as the 10th president in June through the second round of vote. And Rivlim belonged to the right-wing ruling party Likud and has an opposite opinion to establish an independent state of Palestine. But people from the other side say, though he is the member of right-wing, he is respected because of his politically neutral tendency.


This article is not about who is right or wrong. Although this nation is far from our country, we are living the same age and we are all members of global society. So, Israel and Palestine’s situation is not just other nation’s conflict. Without any clear criteria, people can easily think just like ‘where I belong or live now is just right.’ But we will never make peace with those thoughts.

“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” said Einstein.

Like Einstein’s saying, the mind seems necessary to understand each other. We should not be opposed to each other simply because our opinion is different. 

What is the real peace? Let's all practice little by little through starting understanding one another.