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Learning from J Street
Why can’t we bring 2,000 Israelis together for an intensive three-day seminar focused on justice, democracy, peace and security?
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Gershon Baskin Supports a Unilateral Declaration of a Palestinian State
At J-Street’s 2011 Conference, entitled “Giving Voices to our Values,” (Feb. 26-March 1, 2011 in Washington DC) Gershon Baskin stated that he supports a Unilateral Declaration of a Palestinian State that will result in a fait-accompli that the Israelis will have to deal with, including BDS against settlements and Israeli Read more
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Mirror, mirror on the wall
Gershon Baskin feel s that no matter how much concealer we apply, we cannot change reality or mask the fact that our Knesset has become a bastion of xenophobia.
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Thank you in advance
When the Palestinians take to the streets, the squares and the checkpoints in mass nonviolent protest against the occupation, they will win. And when it’s all over, we will be grateful.
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Can the Palestinian and Jewish Citizens of Israel Create a Shared Citizenship?
Gershon Baskin feels that one of the primary concerns of Jewish Israeli citizens, the Law of Return, does not make non-Jewish citizens less equal.
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The roots of democracy on the Nile
Our ability to empathize with the Egyptian masses rather than to only fear them would be greatly enhanced if we learned more about the opposition groups.
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Encountering revolutions
The future of Israel is not linked to the corrupt, nondemocratic regimes we call “moderate,” but to the masses of people who take to the streets demanding rights.
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What Do We Do With The Settlers?
Gershon Baskin shares his ideas about the fate of the people of the Jewish faith living in areas that are not on the Israeli side of the Armistice Demarcation Lines established on April 3, 1949 between Israeli forces and Jordanian-Iraqi forces
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What does Netanyahu want?
Understanding what has been leaked, the PM should move forward with current Palestinian leadership as soon as possible.
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To be suspect
The present political environment makes 1989 look like child’s play…..(people)… are playing with fire and our democracy is at stake, along with the many innocent citizens whose ‘crime’ is working for this to be a truly democratic state living in peace with its neighbors.