Gershon Baskin believes that if Israel was truly prepared to enter into a genuine and serious peace process with the PA, then it makes sense to advocate policies that will directly weaken Hamas. Then it would be clearly understood that there is a true alternative between Hamas and the PA.
Gershon Baskin has not yet seen a better destination than a two-state solution, with two peoples living in peace and cooperation with permeable borders where people and goods can move easily across.
Gershon Bsskin believes that we need some new creative thinking on the future of Gaza and the relations between Israel and Gaza.
Gershon Baskin feels that a lot of people in east Jerusalem feel like they’re on their own and that there is a new generation that doesn’t understand how boycotting the [city] elections are supposed to benefit them.
Gershon Baskin feels that it seems we are in a kind of holding pattern and that it is also clear that if we don’t move forward, we move backward.
Celebrating the moving of the US Embassy to Jerusalem would be complete if an Embassy of the US was also opening in East Jerusalem in recognition of the State of Palestine by the US. Don’t despair – it will happen in the future. If I were the leader of Israel I would invite the Palestinians to establish the embassy of the State of Palestine to Israel in West Jerusalem and would announce our willingness to Read more
Gershon Baskin with hundreds of left wing Israelis and Palestinians march through the streets of Jerusalem in opposition to Trump’s moving the US Embassy to the city.
Iran lied. Wow, that’s news. Is there any serious person in the world who thought Iran’s nuclear program was only for peaceful purposes? Was there anyone who was particularly surprised over the years as unidentified foreign agents picked off one Iranian nuclear scientist after another while Iran remained unsurprisingly silent about it? Was anyone caught off guard when it emerged that a secret underground nuclear facility was being built? Did Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu miss Read more
Daoud Kuttab shares his ideas about the former chairman of the Israeli Palestinian Bereaved Families for Peace, Aziz Abu Sarah and Gershon Baskin’s decision to run in the upcoming municipal elections scheduled for next November in a joint list.
On account of Gershon Baskin’s initiative, this is 1st time Palestinians of East Jerusalem may take part in its municipal elections since 1967.