Insights
The greening of the political map
The Green Movement’s political vision statement is one of the best political documents I have read in a long time. It is comprehensive, visionary and at the same time, realpolitik.
Interviews
Tolerance museum an act of aggression
Gershon Baskin urges Jews to think about how we respond when somewhere in the world a museum or any other institution is built on a Jewish cemetery.
Video
Gershon Baskin featured in Israel/Palestine: A Culture of Conflict
Gershon Baskin is featured in Tom Goudsmit’s documentary film on the Middle East, Israel/Palestine: A Culture of Conflict. In the film Gershon Baskin explains the necessity for learning the truth about the other.
Interviews
Gershon Baskin brings Jerusalem Museum of Tolerance to the Fore
Baskin wisely articulates his argument not on the basis of it being the right thing to do for Muslims or in legal terms. But rather on the basis that it is the right thing to do as Jews.
Insights
A city of tolerance, not a Museum of Tolerance
This is a moral issue and an issue concerning the ability of people of the three faiths to live together in this land and in this city.
Interviews
In Boost for McCain, Ultra-Orthodox Push Israelis to Vote in American Elections
Gershon Baskin claims that American Jews are by majority behind Obama and most Israelis would vote for McCain, especially among American Israelis, who tend to be more right-wing and more religious.
Insights
From concepts to realities
Peace is not built solely by reaching agreements on paper – this is necessary, but not enough. Peace must be built on the ground – from the bottom up. We must begin to transform words and concepts into new realities.
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Creating a new reality on the ground
Gershon Baskin believes that in the absence of real hope that the heads of the Israeli and Palestinian negotiating teams might actually reach an agreement, it is the local leaders who provide the real hope that peace is reachable and not solely a vision on the horizon that continually moves away from us.
Insights
Water from Turkey to Gaza
Gershon Baskin, in a meeting with the head of the Palestinian Water Authority, Mr. Shaddad Atilli, proposes to ship water from Turkey to Gaza using Spragg water bags.