Gershon Baskin

I tried to explain that just like us, almost all Palestinians want to control their own destiny and they do not want to live under the oppression and humility of occupation.

Israel has never been, nor can it ever be, a liberal democratic Jewish state because it is built on the idea of Jewish supremacy over Palestinians.

It is possible that we have not suffered enough to come to terms with the need for a solution.

Palestinians have no official protection, neither against settler violence nor against the Israeli military forces.

Without finding the moral courage and fortitude to take such actions, the situation could become much worse than it already is.

Without having a solution to this conflict, I will continue to work every day to try to help us all to find the path back to the negotiating table and back to the hope that we will live in peace.

In the center of the group were several people holding the black, white, green and red Palestinian flags.

We need to adopt a new way of thinking; one in which all segments of the population – from the river to the sea – can sit round the table together.

It is time to put Israel’s amazing intelligence apparatus to much more intelligent use – developing the strategies and means for avoiding future rounds of fighting. 

Any impartial comparison of life in Palestinian Jerusalem with life in Jewish Jerusalem will easily point to the extreme levels of discrimination within Israel’s capital city.