Al Jazeera’s Teymoor Nabili speaks to Gershon Baskin about his role in the negotiations leading to an Israeli-Hamas prisoner swap agreement that freed Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Gilad Shalit.
Unlike Masada, agreeing with those around us means working with the international community and the Palestinian people to end our control over them and create a Palestinian state in the West Bank and eventually in Gaza.
Dr. Gershon Baskin and Hanna Siniora and share their insights about the Palestinian bid for UN membership.
The fulfillment of UN Charter principles requires the establishment of a negotiated, just and lasting peace in the Middle East.
The sudden sprouting of tent camps and Israeli demonstrations has allowed the public a brief reprieve from having to confront Israel’s international reality and the Palestinian decision to bring the conflict to the UN Security Council in September.While the public is busy thinking about solutions to all the social-economic distortions, Read more
Gershon Baskin shares his views on the interrelationship between cooperation, federation, confederation and the Two State Solution in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
I think the general Israeli Jewish attitude is that we really don’t have anything to learn from the Arabs..Israel will not meet its full potential until Jews and Arabs are equal here, and until Israel no longer rules over millions of Palestinians who reject that rule.
Gershon Baskin believes in the power of people to be good, in the power of compassion, which is much stronger than hatred.
A set of parameters which are perceived as more balanced by Washington will have a greater chance of being accepted by a large part of Israeli society, even if the current government does not accept it. Those parameters would provide the basis for creating a Palestinian state that Israel could live with.
The battle to prevent Palestinian statehood has been lost, and Israel had better come to terms with this emerging reality.