Dr. Gershon Baskin feels that a deal is possible and both leaders must decide.
In February 2012, BICOM’s Director of Research Dr. Toby Greene and Senior Research fellow Professor Alan Johnson published a paper through the Foreign Policy Centre entitled ‘How do we create a future for the two state solution?’ They argued that a two-state outcome remained the only viable way to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and emphasised the need for the international community to show resolve in finding ways to move towards it.
Since then BICOM has continued to explore the factors involved in the stalling of the peace process and how they might be overcome. We have heard from a range of experienced voices who agree on a two-state solution, but offer different approaches on how the deadlock might be broken.
Dr. Gershon Baskin, Ambassador Alan Baker (Director of the Institute for Contemporary Affairs at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, former Legal Adviser to Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and former Israeli Ambassador to Canada. He was a member of the Israeli government’s Levy Committee on the legality of settlements which reported in July 2012) and Professor Asher Susser (Israel’s leading expers on Jordan and the Palestinians, having taught for over 25 years in Tel Aviv University’s Department of Middle Eastern and African History. His latest book, Israel, Jordan and Palestine, the Two State Imperative, was published in 2012) shared their “options” with BICOM
