Interviews
Museum Of Intolerance?
Gershon Baskin wants us to imagine the outrage if the Palestinians were building a Museum of Tolerance (or anything else) on what was once a Jewish cemetery.
Insights
The Museum of Tolerance is being constructed on top of a very important Muslim Cemetery.
This project must be stopped – no good will come from it and the longer it takes to make the decision, the worse the situation will become.
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Stop the Building of the Tolerance Museum on a Muslim Cemetery
All of the citizens of Jerusalem should raise their voice against this project. Jews, Muslims and Christians alike should respect each others’ sacred spaces – without this there can never be peace in this Holy City or in this Holy Land.
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Optical illusion: the hidden results of the Palestinian elections
Hamas presented a unified list in each district while Fatah and others had a multiplicity of candidates which caused great divisions.
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Hope will have to visit on another day
Gershon Baskin claims that he will not engage in dialogue or try to engage in dialogue with someone who does not recognize my right to live and my right for self determination.
Interviews
Sharon’s hawkish journey toward peace
Gershon Baskin believes that Sharon’s biggest political achievement was the reshaping of the political map in Israel and the distance between right and left in Israel shrunk considerably under Sharon, forcing the rise and the significance of the center of the map.
Insights
Collective Punishment Doesn’t Really Work
It is time to try a new course that, rather than threatening and punishing, rewards positive actions and encourages the public to support an increasingly better reality. The alternative is more despair and hopelessness.
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A Peacenik’s Dilemma
I do not believe that Sharon will be the prime minister to negotiate a comprehensive peace agreement with the Palestinians, but he will get us closer than any other potential leader could in these times. Yossi Beilin brought us Geneva, but to achieve a negotiated agreement with the Palestinians he first has to get to the prime minister’s seat. He will not. Sharon will be the next prime minister of Israel.
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New Opportunities for Building Peace
Gerson Baskin believes that It is time to reexamine the axiomatic notion that real cooperation before full peace is not possible.
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The Shifting Sands of Israeli and Palestinian Public Opinion
Once the shift of opinion in favour of the one-state option of the main stream Palestinian leadership occurs, the two-state solution will lose its validity amongst the Palestinian public.