Interviews
Palestine takes a stab at statehood
Gershon Baskin surmises that the Palestinians have learnt from Israel, as the birth certificate of Israel’s existence was obtained from the breeding grounds of the UN.
Interviews
Free speech row after Jerusalem Post sacks writer over blog post
Gershon Baskin feels that Larry Derfner has a right to write that Palestinians have a legitimate right to struggle against occupation, but I think those rights stop short of terrorism.
Interviews
Talking Peace Is Only Language He Understands
When a series of terrorist attacks killed eight Israelis around the southern Israeli city of Eilat, Gershon Baskin knew immediately that the deaths had the potential to escalate into a full-blown conflict between Israel and Hamas, the Islamist group that rules Gaza. And he saw himself as one of the few individuals who could do something to stop it. Baskin, the American Jewish co-founder of the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI), the only Read more
Insights
I call it national suicide
Unlike Masada, agreeing with those around us means working with the international community and the Palestinian people to end our control over them and create a Palestinian state in the West Bank and eventually in Gaza.
Insights
Five Questions – Five Answers: Approaching September – 1
Dr. Gershon Baskin and Hanna Siniora and share their insights about the Palestinian bid for UN membership.
Insights
Proposal for a New UN Security Council Resolution on the Two-States-for-Two-Peoples Solution
The fulfillment of UN Charter principles requires the establishment of a negotiated, just and lasting peace in the Middle East.
Insights
Forgetting September
The sudden sprouting of tent camps and Israeli demonstrations has allowed the public a brief reprieve from having to confront Israel’s international reality and the Palestinian decision to bring the conflict to the UN Security Council in September.While the public is busy thinking about solutions to all the social-economic distortions, the US has been busy trying to pre-empt disaster. So far Israeli rhetoric, such as Avigdor Lieberman’s continued threats to cut relations with the PA, Read more
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Gershon Baskin: The Israeli-Palestinian Confederation and the Two State Solution
Gershon Baskin shares his views on the interrelationship between cooperation, federation, confederation and the Two State Solution in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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I should be a millionaire!
I think the general Israeli Jewish attitude is that we really don’t have anything to learn from the Arabs..Israel will not meet its full potential until Jews and Arabs are equal here, and until Israel no longer rules over millions of Palestinians who reject that rule.
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What gives me hope
Gershon Baskin believes in the power of people to be good, in the power of compassion, which is much stronger than hatred.