Insights

Gershon Baskin shares some ideas that can inspire, bring hope and provide us with a map towards a better future.

Gershon Baskin’s way of looking forward is to help to launch a process in which increasing numbers of Israelis and Palestinians together will begin to design models for their future beyond Oslo.

Gershon Baskin strongly believes that our life experience in this conflict shapes, to a large degree, how we perceive ourselves and how we perceive “the other.”

Gershon Baskin feels that Palestinian nonrecognition of the right of the Jewish people to its homeland has become one of the main obstacles in the Israeli-Palestinian relationship in Israeli eyes since the beginning.

Gershon Baskin feels that we must persist to find the way out of the current situation – the way that our leaders are not taking.

Gershon Baskin believes that eventually we will all come to realize that the only sustainable future for us in this land is to recognize that all of the people in the land belong to the land.

Gershon Baskin feels that we should begin discussing about reaching agreement that we can live with.

Gershon Baskin believes that Israelis and Palestinians will have to come to terms with each other and that neither side is prepared to do so at this time.

Gershon Baskin feels that it is time to work on a completely new workable solutions for the Middle East conflict.

Gershon Baskin senses that the main division lines appear to be on the question of Israel as a Jewish state or Israel as a democratic state.