Interviews

Gershon Baskin discusses situation in Occupied Palestinian Territory and Current Status Of Peace Process at the United Nations African Meeting in Support of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, where he urged the Palestinian negotiators to be better prepared for final status negotiations and called upon them and the international community to avail themselves of the best possible legal advice in advance.

Gershon Baskin thinks that the Palestinians are shooting themselves in the foot by concentrating only on water rights.

“Existe una enorme diferencia” entre ambos “que influenciará las negociaciones con los palestinos” apuntó Gershon Baskin, director del Centro Israel-Palestina para Estudios e Información, con sede en Jerusalén.

Gershon Baskin thinks that the Labor government has been quietly preparing for talks on Jerusalem to begin in May on all final status issues, including the future of Jerusalem.

Gershon Baskin, a 25-year-old Intern from Smithtown, L.I.,thinks that Both Jews and Arabs are interested in creating better relations between the two groups, but both sides have the perception that the other isn’t and that Jewish stereotypes of Arabs are generally that Arabs are closed, that Arabs are dirty, that Arabs are stupid, that Arabs are all antiIsrael.