by Sidra Ezrahi Sidra Ezrahi writes about the role of imagination and poetry in offering inclusive alternatives to the exclusive one-dimensional stories that characterise the conflict over Jerusalem. In this fifth article in our series about Jerusalem, Ezrahi makes a case for poetry as a way of saving the city and its people from the destructive cycle of war and sacrifice.
(Common Ground News Service (CGNews), 22 July 2010)
by Hanna Siniora In the sixth article in our series about Jerusalem, Hanna Siniora of the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information advocates split sovereignty over Jerusalem while maintaining open borders between the Israeli and Palestinian sections. In a tribute to the humane ideas of the late Palestinian leader Feisal Husseini, Siniora outlines a plan for sharing the city which would enable all of us – Israelis and Palestinians – to claim it as our own.
(Source: Common Ground News Service (CG News), 22 July 2010)
by Joseph Mayton Joseph Mayton, Editor of the Bikya Masr News Organization, outlines the environmental damage caused by the Gaza blockade. This calamity in the making, argues Mayton, also presents a new opportunity for Palestinian-Israeli cooperation.
(Source: Common Ground News Service (CGNews), 22 July 2010)
by Gershon Baskin Co-CEO of Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information, Gershon Baskin, argues that the timeframe for making a two-state solution a reality is about one year, warning that continuing to build settlements will spell the end of the Zionist state.
(Source: The Jerusalem Post, 19 July 2010)
by Bernard Sabella In the following poem, Bernard Sabella of Bethlehem University laments not being visible to his Jewish neighbours.
(Source: Arab Media Internet Network, 16 July 2010)
