Insights
Encountering Peace: Peace and the anti-terrorism partnership
Kalandiya is a refugee camp located on the other side of the separation wall in the West Bank. The entire area is Palestinian.
Interviews
Israel’s Struggle against Hamas: Strategic Culture, Adaptation and War
Gershon Baskin feels that the legitimacy deficit of the Palestinian state profoundly affected the PA’s ability to engage in the peace process and fulfill the Israeli requests for more effective Counter-Terrorism (CT) measures without appearing a puppet who fought its own people for the sake of the enemy.
Insights
Encountering Peace: In defense of democracy
In Egypt, democracy is fighting to save democracy. It is a lesson well worth observing because there are other parts of the region which are calling for the same thing. Right next door to us in Gaza there are young people adopting the Tamarod (the movement in Egypt behind the June 30 revolution) who call for an uprising against Hamas. We should all hope that they are successful.
Insights
Encountering Peace: Negotiating Jerusalem, negotiating peace
Peace in Jerusalem is the key to Israeli-Palestinian peace. That key is on the table and waiting to be used.
Insights
Encountering Peace: Making peace pay
Economic growth and hopes for prosperity are important, perhaps even essential, but not enough to bring us peace.
Interviews
Gershon Baskin and Bruce M. Cohen
Gershon Baskin was part of Interns for Peace, co-founded by Bruce M. Cohen, that trained and sent more than 300 interns to work on community development projects in dozens of Arab and Jewish villages.