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.
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.
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.
The Palestinian Authority’s fiscal stability is already on the verge of collapse – a little push and it could easily go over the edge.
In January 2014 I drafted this document and shared it with the Israeli, Palestinian and US negotiators.
With people dying every day and living through unimaginable suffering, why not offer them a new life today? Why wait for tomorrow? Bring them home to Palestine now!
Security is the most fundamental element of the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and their outcome must create a reality in which security is enhanced, not reduced.
Gershon Baskin shares his insights on how he was instrumental in mediating between the Hamas and Israeli governments, which eventually brought about the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit after more than five years in captivity.
I have yet to figure out what people on the Right propose instead of partitioning the land into two states for two peoples.
Israel is no less the state of Palestinian Arabs who were born here for generations than it is the state of a new Jewish immigrant from Ethiopia, Russia or France.
As long as the parties are talking, Israel can continue to say that its hand is outstretched in peace to its neighbors.