Gershon Baskin addresses YaLa’s Peace Conference during which political, economic and cultural leaders shared their messages of support and encouragement for the 5th anniversary of the YaLa Young Leaders movement
Gershon Baskin believes that the majority of Israelis will support any peace agreement brought to them by the prime minister.
Gershon Baskin believes that the parties started their discussions prior to the decision to go to elections and continued during the campaign. When the agreement was reached, Abbas wanted to make it public, but Herzog refused. Herzog explained that his campaign managers and PR advisors anticipated a negative effect on his electability.
Gershon Baskin believes that the lack of effective mechanisms for monitoring and verifying obligations and the absence of workable conflict resolution mechanisms ensured failure of the peace process.
Gershon Baskin thinks that implementable agreements on the core issues that will positively impact realities on the ground for both sides will serve as the best corridor to confronting the narrative issues.
Gershon Baskin, an Israeli who has acted as an unofficial conduit between Israel and Palestinian leaders, personally delivered three Abbas offers for direct talks to Netanyahu’s office over the past three years.
Gershon Baskin believes that governments have a lot of tools at their disposal to foster a culture of peace. It begins with leadership serving as an example and must follow through with the allocation of real resources for its success.
Gershon Baskin shares his insights on the future of Gaza at the IPCRI forum that focused on the future of Gaza.
Gershon Baskin thinks that if Israel is to survive and to be a place worthy of living in, it will come back to the ideology of the Left, which will be embraced by the future leaders of the Right.
Gershon Baskin claims that he personally delivered offers of direct secret meetings to Netanyahu from Abbas and they were all rejected.