Insights
Annexation’s trappings
The conflict is not going away, nor is the State of Israel, nor is Palestine.
The conflict is not going away, nor is the State of Israel, nor is Palestine.
Gershon Baskin tried to organize a direct meeting between Abbas and Netanyahu and Pope Francis invites President Mahmoud Abbas, together with [Israeli] President Shimon Peres, to join him at his home in the Vatican.
Palestinians are fighting for exactly what we Jews fought for – freedom, independence, identity.
Gershon Baskin told Noam, the father of Gilad Shalit, that Gilad was kept literally underground by his Hamas captors and saw the sun on one day over the span of more than five years and that he was near death.
There are significant differences between the various Kurdish regions in the area, including within Iraq itself. Kurds erect large Kurdistan flag in Syria protest.
Gershon ..had empathy for the other side and felt for the Palestinian prisoners languishing in Israeli prisons. Hamad Ghazi felt empathy for Gilad Shalit. These two succeeded where the government officials failed.
The increasing animosity between Netanyahu and Obama put an end to Israeli-Palestinian negotiations way before they reached their end on April 29, 2014.