Write an essay in English on "A Quest for Peace in the Middle-East: Recent Perspectives".

After the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, the then President Pervez Musharraf "declared: "The Palestinian front is affecting the entire Muslim world. All terrorists and militant activity in the world today has been initiated because of the Palestinian problems. This is because of the sense of hopelessness, alienation, and powerlessness." The decade following the aftermath of September 11th has only proven that a comprehensive peace settlement in the Middle East and a resolve to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are a crucial necessity to global stability.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is over who gets what land and how it's controlled. Though both Jews and Arab Muslims date their claims to the land back a couple thousand years, the current political conflict began in the early 20th century. Jews fleeing persecution in Europe wanted to establish a national homeland in what was then an Arab and Muslim majority territory in the Ottoman and later British Empire. The Arabs resisted, seeing the land as rightfully theirs. An early United Nations plan to give each group part of the land failed, and Israel and the surrounding Arab nations fought several wars over the territory. The 1967 war is particularly important for today's conflict, as it left Israel in control of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, two territories home to large Palestinian populations:

The primary approach to solving the conflict today is a so-called "two-state solution" that would establish Palestine as an independent state in Gaza and most of the West Bank, leaving the rest of the land to Israel. Though the two-state plan is clean in theory, the two sides are still deeply divided over how to make it work in practice. The alternative to a two-state solution is a "one-state solution", wherein all of the land becomes either one big Israel or one big Palestine. Most observers think this would cause more problems.

The alternative to a two-state solution is a "one-state solution", where in all of the land becomes either one big Israel or one big Palestine. Most observers think this would cause more problems than it would solve, but this outcome is becoming more likely over time for political and demographic reasons.

Much efforts have been taken to bring peace in the Middle East specially between Palestine and Israel but nothing could comfort the two countries due to the unwonted interfere of world leading countries such as USA and France. Israel seems to be obstinate in conforming all the decisions given by the United Nations. The world powers are also negligent about the policy to bring peace in the battle field of Israel and Palestine. Israel's president did not heed to anything to compromise with Palestine. The Muslim community tried several times to establish a two nation policy in the war stricken countries. But their efforts did not come to reality due to the Israel's stubbornness. Now it seems to us peace between two countries is some what surreal. If world's power take a bias path in solving the problems between Palestine and Israel how could it be possible to bring peace, comfort and to build individual nations between Palestine and Israel?