Gershon Baskin shares his ideas on how to facilitate the advancement of the International Fund for Israeli Palestinian peace and how to establish an inter-ministerial committee on equality for all citizens of Israel.
Gershon Baskin feels that applicants for family reunification should be immediately granted the right to love and to live in peace with their spouses and families as equal citizens of our democratic country.
Gershon Baskin feels that relying on that belief and on the old tired slogan of rebuilding deterrence will only bring us more of the same.
Gershon Baskin thinks that it is time for discreet behind-the-scenes work to take place to begin to rebuild contacts and to seek to develop some trust across the conflict lines and rethink how we want to share this land that we both claim.
Gershon Baskin feels that a new government of change in Israel will enable us to get back to the central questions that we need to address.
Gershon Baskin senses that we are trapped in political systems that have stalemated our societies and have divided us from within.
Gershon Baskin shares his ideas about what’s happening in Israel/Palestine and what happens next.
Gershon Baskin feels that the chances of bringing about moderation to Hamas’s positions are a thousand times better through speaking than as a result of air force shelling by Israel.
Gershon Baskin feels that we need to replace the failed strategies that have left us with no road map to the future that involve mutual respect, understanding, acceptance and equality.
Gershon Baskin senses that the area of the Al-Aqsa/Temple Mount has the cosmic power to transform the political Israeli-Palestinian conflict into a religious conflict between Islam and Judaism.