Is Peace really such an abstract concept?

Is Peace really such an abstract concept that it cannot be attained? The Middle East is erupting , as usual. It seems that they can't last 9 seconds without blowing something up.
Because, there is only one answer. Stop. Just stop. How can that be so profound that it has been unattainable since the beginning? Stop.
Every generation has a War. In my memory, there was the WWI generation, the WWII generation, then it was Korea, my generation is the Viet Nam War generation, and now there are so many I can't even keep track. Persian Gulf War, Afganistan, Iraq, war after war after war. Everybody is at war. In case you don't know it, we're at war.
This is the BBC article that initiated these thoughts.

Israel to enforce Gaza no-go zone

Israel has dropped leaflets in Gaza to warn Palestinians that they will face lethal force if they enter a newly declared buffer zone near the border. The Israeli-imposed restrictions will come into effect from 1800 (1600 GMT) on Wednesday, the leaflets say.
"Anyone who will not heed this warning is placing his or her life in immediate danger," the leaflets say.
The buffer area will be about 2.5km (1.5 miles) deep and is intended to stop rocket attacks by militant groups.
Palestinian officials have rejected the proposed buffer zone and called for Israel to re-engage in meaningful peace negotiations.
"The ways of buffer-zones, militarism, incursions, attacks, assassinations will just ... add to the cycle of violence and counter-violence," said senior negotiator Saeb Erekat in a BBC interview.
The leaflets, signed by the Israeli army command and dropped by air onto northern Gaza, include a map of the security zone and said it would be enforced "until further notice".
"For your own safety, read this statement carefully and act accordingly," the leaflet says in Arabic.
"Know that the terrorists have made you hostages and human shields and safeguard your interests," it continues.
Israeli troops and settlers were pulled out of Gaza earlier this year after 37 years of military occupation, but the territory's coastline and airspace and its borders with Israel remain under Israeli control.
Rocket attacks
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon gave the order to impose the buffer at a meeting with cabinet colleagues and security officials on Sunday.
The move followed talks on Thursday in which the prime minister told the army to do everything possible to stop rocket fire from the territory.
A rocket attack that day wounded four Israeli soldiers.
A Palestinian man was killed when the army responded by firing artillery shells at the launch site in a field it said was empty.
The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, has asked militant groups to stop firing rockets.
But Islamic Jihad, blamed by Israel for the majority of the attacks, has reportedly rejected Mr Abbas's call, blaming Israel for a recent escalation in violence.
They say the rocket attacks are retaliation for raids in the West Bank, as well as air strikes on Gaza.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4564084.stm

They just keep going on and on and on. It upsets me.

We should be evolved enough as an intelligent, sentient species by now to be able to see that this way doesn't work. And then again, I could be completely and totally off the proverbial wall.
Ha. Thinking that Peace means Stop War.
Well, I'm posting it.
And thinking it and dreaming it and desiring it.
humpf.
humpf and arrgh.
We just came out of the Silentest of Nights, Christmas Eve.
And now we're lighting Chanukkah Candles to shed light upon the world.
What ain't workin?