The art of peacemaking

Is this the end of the line in the Middle East? USA Today labels it "Final confrontation" and reports that over the Easter weekend merchants and religious leaders in the Holy Land felt that the escalating violence had "cast a pall of hopelessness over the holidays." Letters to other US newspapers indicate that hopelessness has spread around the world, with people feeling they can't bear the latest installment of news because each one indicates futility and spreading danger.

Even Thomas Friedman of The New York Times, a longtime student of the region, claimed on CNN recently that people are "out of ideas" on how to resolve the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Indeed, things have become so confusing that even he had "lost the thread of blame."

What does this mean to those who have been praying about the Middle East conflict? Are we out of ideas? Is it time to give up?

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