Gershon Baskin CEO of the Israel Palestine Research Centre [IPCRI] said that the security co-operation that has been occurring between Israel and the Palestinian security forces “will not continue if there’s no paradigm for a Palestinian state”
Gershon Baskin suggested to me in our interview at Tantur that he believed that the settlement of “Har Homa” with its homes could be offered to the Palestinians as part of land swaps, so that it could in effect become the New Bethlehem.
askin spoke of the possibility of the United States supporting this at the UN Security Council, but this did not come to pass. That is why Abbas wants to go now to the General Assembly, which will not lead to a state on the ground, but will enable the Palestinians to attempt to Israel at the International Criminal Court
if hard core left-wing Israelis (like Gershon Baskin) and Palestinians committed to non-violence could not come close to a deal at a conference such as this, I did not see any bilateral agreement on the horizon–whether or not George Mitchell was injected into the formula.
Gershon Baskin analyzes the political future of Saalam Fayyad
Gershon Baskin believes the only way to achieve Mideast peace is by having the international community impose a Palestinian state on Israel.
Gershon Baskin claims that Israel can’t be overrun with Palestinian refugees, because then there will be two Palestinian states, and no Jewish state.