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Partner or pariah?
Gershon Baskin believes that the state of Palestine will exist and that it will be created next to Israel. The main question is in what context it will be established.
Gershon Baskin believes that the state of Palestine will exist and that it will be created next to Israel. The main question is in what context it will be established.
The current lack of definition (of Basic Law) enables Israel’s Palestinian citizens to feel estranged from the state and allows the state to view those citizens as less than full citizens.
The Palestinian threat is not an existential one, but nonetheless, we cannot allow for the chance of rockets being fired from the West Bank into Israel.
Arabs, as reflected in the Arab Peace Initiative state that Israel will get the recognition and security it desires when it fulfills the requirements of the Initiative – in other words, gaining recognition, peace and security is the outcome of the process.