Shortly after US-President Barack Obama took office a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict on the basis of a Two-State Solution seemed feasible. Today a solution for this wide-ranging conflict is more unlikely than ever.
Watch Mustafa Barghouti’s Video Message to the Conference participants.
After many years of struggle for a state, facts on the ground in the occupied territories have been changed dramatically by the Israeli state. Huge settlements have been built all over the West Bank, filled with religous settlers and ordinary citizens of Israel who are subsidized by their government. What influence had the Road Map or the Oslo negotiations? The panel discusses the perspectives of a Palestinian state.
Hasham Youssef, Luisa Morgantini and Ursula Plassnik discuss the viability of a Palestinian state from an Arab and European Perspective. The panel is moderated by Gudrun Harrer, Senior Editor of the daily Der Standard.
Watch a heated debate between former Knesset speaker Avraham Burg, former Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem Meron Benvenisti and Samir Abdullah Ali of the Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute. Guest discussant is Gilbert Achcar of the University of London.
Der Südafrikaner Horst Kleinschmidt hat jahrzehntelang gegen die Apartheid und den institutionellen Rassismus gekämpft. Der Träger des Bruno Kreisky-Menschenrechtspreises zieht eine Bilanz der Entwicklung des Landes nach der Apartheid und versucht, Zukunftsszenarien für Südafrika aufzuzeigen.
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