Gershon Baskin was speaking for himself and trying to get into the door of the prime minister’s office to convey some of the messages he was getting from Hamas, with a view that they might be able to settle the prisoner situation
If there’s one person who can claim much of the credit for Gilat Shalit’s release it’s Gershon Baskin. He was the first Isaeli to make contact with Hamas, only days after Gilad Shalit was abducted more than five years ago.
Nothing scares off investors like the unkown and right now, it’s very difficult to see a clear path ahead for bringing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict closer to a resolution.
Gershon Baskin presents his twenty-three year experience trying to advance peace on the basis of Two-States for Two-Peoples. He provides his understanding of the development of the conflict over the past two decades, and offers a detailed analysis of the current political climate in Palestine.
Gershon Baskin feels that one of the primary concerns of Jewish Israeli citizens, the Law of Return, does not make non-Jewish citizens less equal.
Gershon Baskin shares his ideas about the fate of the people of the Jewish faith living in areas that are not on the Israeli side of the Armistice Demarcation Lines established on April 3, 1949 between Israeli forces and Jordanian-Iraqi forces
Gershon Baskin shares his ideas about the possibilities of Peace in the Middle East