Insights
The Oslo Peace Process – Lessons Learned
Gershon explains the importance of investing a lot more energy and thought into how to integrate the bottom-up peace making process within their overall strategies.
Gershon explains the importance of investing a lot more energy and thought into how to integrate the bottom-up peace making process within their overall strategies.
Gershon Baskin feels that Mitzna’s victory can be a turning point and it is now it is up to us to make the real difference.
After many more casualties on both sides, the sides will come back to the only real viable solution to the conflict – real political separation together with economic cooperation and integration.
Israelis and Palestinians who know that eventually we will reach peace…must not give in to the emotional drive to cut links and contacts. Quite the opposite, we must remain committed to dialogue aimed at planning our future together through a vision of cooperation, mutual respect and dignity.
Gershon Baskin says that we are in a period of very intensive activity trying to re-launch contacts between the Israelis and Palestinians with three Israeli-Palestinian working groups on water, economy and Jerusalem that are meeting almost weekly.