Gershon Baskin feels that the complexity of the issues in the Middle East require for them to be dealt with within the immediate region by the main actors in a way that enables cooperation and fosters security and stability.
Gershon Baskin feels that we need to go beyond words, we must go beyond dialogue and we must all relearn how to take the baby steps necessary for walking forward.
Gershon Baskin believes that the days of reckoning will come. It is not about politics. It is not about political parties. It is about values. It is about morals. It is about ethics. It is about identity and it is about the soul of our nation.
Gershon Baskin thinks that Russia can help to level a very unleveled playing field between Israel and Palestine.
Gershon Baskin believes that if Israel was truly prepared to enter into a genuine and serious peace process with the PA, then it makes sense to advocate policies that will directly weaken Hamas. Then it would be clearly understood that there is a true alternative between Hamas and the PA.
Gershon Baskin has not yet seen a better destination than a two-state solution, with two peoples living in peace and cooperation with permeable borders where people and goods can move easily across.
Gershon Bsskin believes that we need some new creative thinking on the future of Gaza and the relations between Israel and Gaza.
Gershon Baskin feels that it seems we are in a kind of holding pattern and that it is also clear that if we don’t move forward, we move backward.
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