Insights
Palestine is inevitable
The battle to prevent Palestinian statehood has been lost, and Israel had better come to terms with this emerging reality.
Interviews
Oberlin Students for Israel Respond to Criticism
Gershon Baskin explained the feasibility of a two-state solution and spoke about his nearly 25-year-long career in bringing groups of Israelis and Palestinians together to collaborate on solving some of the most pressing issues of the peace process.
Insights
Learning from J Street
Why can’t we bring 2,000 Israelis together for an intensive three-day seminar focused on justice, democracy, peace and security?
Audio
Peace is Doable: Thinking About How to Save the Two-State Solution
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.
Insights
Gershon Baskin Supports a Unilateral Declaration of a Palestinian State
At J-Street’s 2011 Conference, entitled “Giving Voices to our Values,” (Feb. 26-March 1, 2011 in Washington DC) Gershon Baskin stated that he supports a Unilateral Declaration of a Palestinian State that will result in a fait-accompli that the Israelis will have to deal with, including BDS against settlements and Israeli settlement products.
Insights
Mirror, mirror on the wall
Gershon Baskin feel s that no matter how much concealer we apply, we cannot change reality or mask the fact that our Knesset has become a bastion of xenophobia.
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Thank you in advance
When the Palestinians take to the streets, the squares and the checkpoints in mass nonviolent protest against the occupation, they will win. And when it’s all over, we will be grateful.
Audio
Can the Palestinian and Jewish Citizens of Israel Create a Shared Citizenship?
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.
Insights
The roots of democracy on the Nile
Our ability to empathize with the Egyptian masses rather than to only fear them would be greatly enhanced if we learned more about the opposition groups.
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Encountering revolutions
The future of Israel is not linked to the corrupt, nondemocratic regimes we call “moderate,” but to the masses of people who take to the streets demanding rights.