The way to Peace or War can be taken not only by the leader of a country but also by its People. Germany for example used to be aggressive and believed in its right to rule the world because of its greatness. The most important reason for this aggression was the people support for their leader to go to war that resulted in killing thousands of people and making other thousands suffer.  The people are important in deciding which way the country wants to take. If the people are taught that they have to fight and kill in order to make their beliefs and thoughts the only right choice, then the result would be much worse.A leader can decide what he wants, for example if a leader chooses to go to war and his people support him in his decision, then his power will be greater, and the results would be harder. Also if a leader chooses to go to Peace and his people do not support him, then Peace shall never success, because in order to succeed, one needs support. It may really take a lot of time until someone could change the basics of the belief system that a people work upon, but imagine how amazing would be the results after tens of years. In order to succeed, sacrifice is needed and this sacrifice could be the kind of giving without waiting to be given. A wise Leader that looks into the future and not the present could understand that although he may work a lot to make a change in his people, the new kind of people that his country could get in the future will change everything. The difficulty in achieving any kind of peace in the Middle East is that the people who live their, neither the Israelis nor the Arabs do believe in the opportunity of making Peace between them. There are a lot of reasons for this kind of no trust between the two nations. Through history several clashes and disagreements appeared between the two peoples, so the question is if there will be any chance that two strong and brave leaders appear at the same time and achieve what all the others couldn’t achieve and bring Peace to the land of Peace, or everyone will keep on fighting the other until the Judgment Day comes and God judge those who were the reason in making the life of millions of people a hell that abandoned them from knowing the real meaning of life.

Ziad Khalil Abu Zayyad

A Palestinian-Arab living in East Jerusalem, Ziad graduated from College Des Freres in Jerusalem in 2003. Ziad finished his major in International Relations and English Literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ziad is a former President of the Watan student movement at the university. He is interested in Middle Eastern political issues and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Founder of the Middle East Post and MEL (Middle East Future Leadership Network), he represents Palestinian youth at several international conferences.

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