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No More Violence, No More Incitement
Gershon Baskin calls upon Israel’s leaders to bow their heads today and engage in self-scrutiny and ask how and why have we reached this abyss?
Gershon Baskin calls upon Israel’s leaders to bow their heads today and engage in self-scrutiny and ask how and why have we reached this abyss?
Hopefully the lessons of these tragic mistakes will be learned and turned into new policies for the future.
Based on his experience with the Hamas, Gershon Baskin shares his views at the Israel Now conference in Tel Aviv, explaining his vision of Zionism and the state of the two state solution.
The cycle must be broken and a new modus operandi needs to be employed.
I would propose a moment of naiveté, or a moment of dreaming, that the current agreement could actually be the first step in creating a Middle East free of all weapons of mass destruction.
Gershon Baskin is cited with his comments on the anti-normalization campaign which he notes has been in existence “for more than a decade,” following an IPCRI event being violently broken up by “anti-normalization thugs.”
Gershon Baskin, an Israeli negotiator involved in the talks, backed up claims that despite repeated attempts by Israel to engage with Hamas diplomatically, the Gaza-based group continues to deny it is holding Mengistu, leaving negotiations in a deadlock.
Gershon Baskin has been involved in talks with Khaled Mashal, leader of the Islamic Palestinian organization Hamas, to secure the release of Avraham Mengistu.
Gershon Baskin claims that the 2 Israeli citizens being held captive in the Gaza Strip are not a valuable asset like a captured soldier, and they are not a high-value bargaining card.
Israeli negotiator Gershon Baskin, who has been involved in the efforts to return Mengitsu, claims that Hamas officials had told him they had freed the Israeli when they concluded he suffered from a mental illness.