Insights
The key is whether the EU will at last recognise Palestine
Gershon Baskin responds to Pierre Schori, who reminds us that Europe has a key leading role to play in advancing Israeli-Palestinian peace that even the United States cannot do.
Gershon Baskin responds to Pierre Schori, who reminds us that Europe has a key leading role to play in advancing Israeli-Palestinian peace that even the United States cannot do.
Gershon Baskin thinks that an EU declaration recognising the Palestinian state could say that Palestine’s boundaries will be determined after negotiations with Israel, but based on the Armistice lines in 1949 (the Green Line) with agreed upon territorial swaps that leave Palestine in sovereign possession of 22% of the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
Four rounds of talks have taken place. The parameters have been set, the process has begun, and now it is time to get serious.
Gershon Baskin speaks to luncheon at 2010 CMEP Advocacy Conference.
Gershon Baskin thinks that the economic siege of Gaza was meant to weaken Hamas and to apply pressure on it to release Gilad Schalit. The policy has accomplished neither. Instead, Hamas is stronger and richer and Israel is isolated and condemned by the international community.
Gershon Baskin claims that the real issue is the siege on Gaza that until now there hasn’t been much discussion of the issue.