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Encountering Peace: They’ve come a long way
The award-winning new Israeli film Beit Lehem (Bethlehem) captured reality with its shocking depiction of the horrific reality we lived through during the years of the second intifada.
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View from the other side: Al-Aqsa is not in danger
The issue of Jerusalem is one of the central pieces of any possible Palestinian-Israeli peace. Jerusalem must become the capital of both Palestine and Israel in order for there to be peace.
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Gershon Baskin depicted in an utopian fantasy film
Under the Same Sun is an utopian fantasy, set in the near future, where Gershon Baskin (depicted as Shaul in the Film) and Palestinian businessmen introduce solar energy to the West Bank, with glorious results.
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Encountering peace: Making peace, not just negotiating
It’s extremely difficult to find a single Palestinian who believes current Israeli-Palestinian negotiations will produce an agreement.
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Gershon Baskin and “Oslo Peace”: Twenty Years On
Gershon Baskin claims that to overcome the lack of mutual trust, the only way is secret back-channel talks. Netanyahu cannot go into a real negotiation with the Palestinians and keep his government. Abbas can’t go into a serious negotiation with Israelis and keep stability on his own side.
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Encountering peace: They must reach an agreement
Now what is left to do is to convince both publics that reaching a negotiated agreement is really possible and not to allow our leaders the opportunity of missing another opportunity.
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Encountering peace: The weakness of force and the power of diplomacy
With success in Syria, the international community might even become bolder in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian issue. It has been said that when asked his opinion about the Iran-Iraq war, prime minister Menachem Begin responded: I wish both sides the greatest success. That seems to be the position of many Israelis today regarding Syria. It seems to me that a large part of the Israeli public, at least a large part of the media and Read more
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Encountering Peace: Peace and the anti-terrorism partnership
Kalandiya is a refugee camp located on the other side of the separation wall in the West Bank. The entire area is Palestinian.
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Israel’s Struggle against Hamas: Strategic Culture, Adaptation and War
Gershon Baskin feels that the legitimacy deficit of the Palestinian state profoundly affected the PA’s ability to engage in the peace process and fulfill the Israeli requests for more effective Counter-Terrorism (CT) measures without appearing a puppet who fought its own people for the sake of the enemy.
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Encountering Peace: In defense of democracy
In Egypt, democracy is fighting to save democracy. It is a lesson well worth observing because there are other parts of the region which are calling for the same thing. Right next door to us in Gaza there are young people adopting the Tamarod (the movement in Egypt behind the June 30 revolution) who call for an uprising against Hamas. We should all hope that they are successful.