This is a dynamic country with tremendous potential. Its achievements in its 62+ years are remarkable.Its democracy is vibrant and offers vast opportunities for citizens to affect public policy. This kind of positive attitude is the narrative we claim in our efforts to recruit a genuine groundswell of progressive support
The report claims that the main barrier hampering the solution is the lack of a unified position on the both sides of the conflict and a proposal of a number of political steps that can finally lead to a stabilization in the region.
Now that the US has finally decided that negotiations about negotiations are over, the real work will get under way.
Gershon Baskin offers his vision of a Jerusalem with all the culture an international city can offer.
This isn’t about the tragedy in the Carmel. This is about the proverbial fire under the house of the Zionist enterprise.
Dr. Gershon Baskin, founder and co-director of the Israel Palestine Center for Research and Information, offers his vision of a Jerusalem with all the culture an international city can offer.
Gershon Baskin feels that at five minutes to midnight, there is no time to wait for negotiations; it is time to put the real peace offer on the table, one that you know the Palestinians and Syrians can accept.
Our peoples need leaders who understand that their leadership is not judged by how long they postpone the inevitable, but by how swiftly they resolve the conflict.
While I don’t support Abu Mazen’s position, I do understand him. Israel never demanded this kind of recognition from anyone else–not from Egypt or Jordan and not even from the United States. If the Palestinians recognize Israel, then as the Palestinians understand it they will be agreeing to remove the issue of refugee rights even before the negotiations begin; surely Israel cannot expect them to do so.
