“For too long, the citizens of the Middle East have lived amidst death and fear. The hatred of a few holds the hopes of many hostage. The forces of extremism and terror are trying to kill progress and peace by killing innocent people. And it casts a dark shadow over an entire region,” President George W. Bush said in his address to the nation on June 24, 2002. The conflict between Israel and Palestine is just one of many facets that have shaped modern politics in the Middle East. East. It is a conflict rooted in generations of violence, discrimination and prejudice, complicated by a history older than that of any modern superpower. Since the creation of the State of Israel through the UN partition of Palestine in 1947, the region has suffered invasions, occupations and wars. Many efforts have been made by the United States and the international community as a whole to find a viable solution that could bring peace to the region, but any hope of achieving a viable solution appears to have evaporated over the past few years. last five years. The implementation of the Second Palestinian Infitatda and the failure of negotiations between Arafat and Barak virtually erased the optimism generated by the 1990s. A sort of impasse appears to have been created amid the failure of the negotiations , further destroying the hope of creating a free and sovereign Palestinian state. However, in recent weeks, recent developments in the region have seemingly given the peace process a new opportunity for peace. The death of Yassar Arafat not only ends an era for the Palestinian people, but it also ushers in a new political era, a chance for change, new leadership and, hopefully, the c... ... middle of document ......com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/10/arafat.obit/index.html Reich, Bernard. “The United States and Israel: The Nature of a Special Relationship.” » The Middle East and the United States, 2nd EdRynhold, Jonathan. “The View from Jerusalem: Israeli-American Relations and the Peace Process.” » Journal of International Affairs in the Middle East. Flight. 4 No. 2. June 2000. Said, Edward W. “Roadmap Archaeology? From Oslo to Iraq and the road map. Pantheon Books, 2004. Satloff, Robert. “The Way Not to Take: Assessing the Quartet’s Roadmap to Restoring Israeli-Palestinian Peace.” » Washington Institute for Near East Policy, October 23, 2002. Talbot, Brent. Israel?, October 7, 2004, University of Denver Graduate School of International Studies Weisman, Steven R. “Israel Takes Quiet Steps to Support Palestinians.” The New York Times. Sunday November 14, 2004