- Yasser Arafat and Gerry Adams Caught in the Middle of the Struggle for Peace By Jennifer Hitchcock Staff Writer and Copy Editor ecent events in Isreal and Northern Ireland have seriously jeopardized the struggle for peace in those two countries. At approximately noon Isreal time on March 4, the fourth bombing in nine days took the lives of at least 14 people in front of a crowded shopping center ...www.trincoll.edu/zines/tj/tj3.7.96/articles/isr.html