Arabs, as reflected in the Arab Peace Initiative state that Israel will get the recognition and security it desires when it fulfills the requirements of the Initiative – in other words, gaining recognition, peace and security is the outcome of the process.
Gershon Baskin believes that supporting the incorporation of peace education into the formal curricula of both sides could potentially advance peace even as the conflict continues today.
Research, inquiry and investigation must be part of the way we teach about each other to promote education for tolerance, understanding and peace.
Now is the time to demonstrate that the international community has the tools and the determination to lead us all to a more peaceful future.
The people of Israel elected a right-wing government which can but does not want and the Palestinian people elected a Hamas-led government that also probably could but doesn’t want.
A Security Council Resolution that is maybe far-fetched, but not beyond imagination.
We are not willing to accept that the struggle to move the museum has ended!
I know first-hand that Olmert had a real alternative to the war in Gaza. Instead of the war there could have been a secret direct back channel for talks with Hamas that would have enabled the extension of the ceasefire, the end of the economic siege of Gaza and the return of Gilad Schalit in exchange for the same prisoner release that could have brought him home.
Paul Woodward reveals The connection that Gershon Baskin had with a member of the prime minister’s family in the passing of messages to Olmert about the case of the kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
Baskin, who has a long background in encouraging Israeli-Palestinian contacts, believes that the failure to pursue the overtures was a lost opportunity that contributed to the outbreak of conflict.