Insights
Encountering Peace: From David to Goliath
Palestinians are fighting for exactly what we Jews fought for – freedom, independence, identity.
Gilad Schalit
Talking with Gilad Shalit’s dad
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.
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Encountering peace: From Kurdistan to Israel
There are significant differences between the various Kurdish regions in the area, including within Iraq itself. Kurds erect large Kurdistan flag in Syria protest.
Book Reviews
Freedom for Gilad
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.
Insights
Encountering Peace: The Iranian connection
The increasing animosity between Netanyahu and Obama put an end to Israeli-Palestinian negotiations way before they reached their end on April 29, 2014.
Insights
Encountering peace: People of Israel – Wake Up!
A unitary state winds up either being an apartheid state with second-class citizens – or it ends up being a state that destroys the capacity of Israel to be a Jewish state.
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The charade is almost over
Netanyahu has failed his state and his people. He has failed history. He had a chance, he could have done it. He decided to play petty politics.
Interviews
Replacing fear with curiosity, Israelis foray into Ramallah
Gershon Baskin says that trips by Israelis to Ramallah are needed to foster understanding after years of enforced separation that deepened the divide between the two peoples. There will never be peace in this land unless the people living on the land talk to each other and drop these walls of fear, animosity and hatred.
Insights
Encountering Peace: Netanyahu’s options
Israel has the ability to “cut to the chase” and to understand that in order to protect its own interests the best thing to do is to find the path toward agreement.