Israel, Palestine looking for peace

by Bradley Cain beat reporter

On July 19, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged his cabinet members to vote in favor of freeing 104 Palestinian prisoners, some of whom had been imprisoned for decades.The measure passed 14-6 with two abstentions, according to CNN.

Hours later, Secretary of State John Kerry officially announced that, after a threeyear stalemate, an agreement had been reached on a basis for resuming peace talks between Palestinian and Israeli negotiators.

coming solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a conflict that began at the end of the Ottoman period,” Paz said. “The Palestinian leadership is too weak to make concessions, a direct influence of the Arab Civil War, and the Israeli rightwing Likud party tends to take advantage of this weakness.”

Phillip Spivey is a lecturer of philosophy and religion at the University of Central Arkansas and said there is much more to the conflict than religion.