But there is a more important reason: I believe America needs a vibrant peace movement.
Their global Mayors for Peace movement now has the support of more than 4, 000 mayors worldwide.
Clinton and Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin were icons of the Israeli peace movement.
But a vibrant American peace movement must also, at least, respect the experiment that is this country.
So you might imagine what the peace movement was saying behind closed doors.
In his Ma'ariv article, Dankner reserves some of his harshest criticism, however, for Israeli leaders of the peace movement.
Some idealists believed that a strong peace movement in Western Europe would inspire those behind the Iron Curtain to demand disarmament from their rulers too.
The Geneva Conventions, for instance, are shown coming about when one branch of the peace movement stopped trying to abolish war, and worked with governments to humanise the way that wars were fought.
On December 4th, Israel's Peace Now movement released its latest report on settlement construction in the occupied territories.
As one of the founders of the EU-funded radical Peace Now movement, Tamir opposes all Israeli building beyond the 1949 lines.
Borrowing a page from North Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap, Osama bin Laden is making the US and European "peace" movement an instrument of his strategy.
According to Israel's Peace Now movement, Mr Barak, since he came to power, has sanctioned 4, 028 new houses in Jewish settlements in the occupied territories, including 2, 149 in or near East Jerusalem.
Bin Laden is openly trying to exploit politicial divisions in Europe and the US in the way that General Giap counted on the American "peace" movement to weaken the American people's resolve even though they were winning the war.
But the shock was not enough to renew movement toward peace.
Mr Sicilia, whose son was kidnapped and killed in 2011, said members of his Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity did not feel represented by the memorial.
We should work closely with the U.S. and to coordinate our joint efforts in order to have the parties break the stalemate and the stalled movement towards peace.
If a movement toward durable peace is to begin in East Timor, the starting point must be incentives for parties to stop the war.
Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres urged Arafat to "take hold" of the situation, warning all the recent movement toward resuming peace talks could be lost if he does not.
Already, one breakaway faction, the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement, has rejected peace negotiations and has been violating a ceasefire.
Israel will probably conclude that if such entrenched Arab regimes can fall, making peace with a deeply divided Palestinian movement is anything but a sure bet.
"Democracy is one thing, and another thing is the understanding that democracy means people can destroy the peace and interrupt the freedom of movement, " Mr Solari told RPP radio.
Recently, there has been movement on restarting a peace process, with the head of Turkey's leading opposition party signaling his willingness to work toward a resolution with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The NATO-led peace force officially refused a Serb request to escort vehicles, saying it would violate the peace accord's provisions for free movement.
Third, the Chinese may expect that movement on their part toward peace in Cambodia will benefit them materially in their relations with the United States and other Western states.
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On this special occasion, a global movement for a culture of peace was initiated by the United Nations to create a " grand alliance " of existing movements that unites all those already working for a culture of peace in its eight domains of action.
When we think of those famous words -- "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for the country" -- it was followed up by thousands of people wanting to join the Peace Corps, and the Civil Rights movement was already out there.
They believe that many unionists have never had any intention of sharing power, and are using decommissioning either to break the peace deal, or to emasculate the republican movement.
The student uprising in Iran, the stutter-step movement toward an Israeli-Palestinian peace, the ferment within Saudi Arabia, yesterday's elections in Jordan, are all trends that were enhanced by the downfall of Saddam's regime.
Pakistan has repeatedly tried to forge peace deals with the Pakistani Taliban, a movement known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, but none of these agreements has stuck, usually because the militants used the cease-fire agreements to regroup, rearm and launch fresh attacks.
It is especially so in Egypt, where 30 years of uninterrupted rule by Hosni Mubarak, who succeeded president Anwar Sadat after his assassination in 1981 (see video below), are being questioned by an angry youth movement and dissident politicians like Nobel peace laureate and former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed El Baradei.
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