Insights
It’s time for Palestine
For the survival and for the security of Israel, it is time for Palestine.
For the survival and for the security of Israel, it is time for Palestine.
In this background paper, Gershon Baskin demonstrates how twenty two years of failed peace process have left the public on both sides of the conflict with a deep sense that there is no partner for peace and that peace is not possible.
Gershon Baskin focused on the lessons that should be learned from the failures of Israeli Palestinian peace processes and offered conclusions regarding future prospects.
Rafaela Barkay interviews Dr. Gershon Baskin about his personal experience as an advisor to the Prime Minister of Israel during the years immediately before and after the Oslo accords. Gershon shares his insights regarding what worked and did not work and why.
Gershon Baskin is analyzed by the director of the Israel Resource News Agency & The Center for Near East Policy Research.
Gershon Baskin claims that thousands of Israelis and Palestinians have been killed since we began the peace process and we need a guide to go forward and that has not happened. Instead there has been violence. We are afraid of each other and don’t believe we can reach agreement, but we can.
Gershon Baskin believes that the only solution to the Israel Palestinian conflict is dividing the land between the river and the sea.
Gershon Baskin, the acclaimed activist-journalist-peacemaker, spoke about “Israel’s Direction Post-Election” at Temple Isaiah in LA.
Half of Israel’s population continues to support a vision of two states for two peoples, and if Israelis believed it was possible to achieve such a solution, that number would grow to two thirds.
Dr. Gershon Baskin, took us to the brand new Palestinian city of Rawabi, where wee saw the innovative and impressive models of a city that will house Palestinians of all backgrounds. Baskin’s assessment is that supporting the emerging Palestine is not only the morally correct thing to do for Palestinians, but is also the best guaranteed security for the Israel that many of us hope to see: an open democracy situated side-by-side with its neighboring state, Palestine.