Insights
Encountering Peace: Negotiating Jerusalem, negotiating peace
Peace in Jerusalem is the key to Israeli-Palestinian peace. That key is on the table and waiting to be used.
Insights
Encountering Peace: Making peace pay
Economic growth and hopes for prosperity are important, perhaps even essential, but not enough to bring us peace.
Interviews
Gershon Baskin and Bruce M. Cohen
Gershon Baskin was part of Interns for Peace, co-founded by Bruce M. Cohen, that trained and sent more than 300 interns to work on community development projects in dozens of Arab and Jewish villages.
Interviews
What went wrong? Learning from the mistakes of Oslo
Gershon Baskin, a longtime peace activist thinks that in future agreements there must be no constructive ambiguity and the language has to be explicit.
Insights
Encountering Peace: The days after tomorrow
Negotiators often get lost in the task of negotiating. The details consume their attention – and this is necessary. It is essential that the agreements are explicit and understood in the same way by both parties.
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Encountering Peace: Facing the music and dancing the dance
While Netanyahu is negotiating with Palestinians, his former friends, political allies will be organizing creation of a Palestinian state.
Interviews
Three Young Judea alumni discuss their past and present
Gershon Baskin reiterates the lesson he learned as a young Judaean is that Israel is our home and coming here, making aliya, is a change of the essence of your life – and when you make that decision, it’s a life decision.
Insights
Making decisions
US Secretary of State John Kerry is coming back to Israel today after months of intensive work with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on finding the mechanism to formally renew Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
Insights
Decision-making time
There is no possibility for Israel to have it both ways – we can either have a Jewish nation-state on that territory or a democratic state.
Book Reviews
Secret Israel-Hamas Channel Freed Gilad Shalit
Gershon Baskin succeeded where others had failed. He was able to open a secret back channel with Hamas and brought Shalit’s captivity to a happy ending, after five years and four months, in exchange for 1,000 Palestinian prisoners.