Insights

The end of Zionism is in sight brought to us by the very hands that created the bi-national reality on the ground in the name of Zionism.

The key to resolving the water dispute is cooperation that will bring additional quantities of water to the area and better management and conservation of the water that we have.

Let’s not give up; we can prevent this horrible project from moving forward!!!

Gershon Baskin proposes that Two Rabbis, two Muslim Sheikhs and two Christian Bishops from the Holy Land deliver a message of peace from the Holy City to the new President and to the American people that would serve as a strong symbol for the renewed hope for peace in the world.

The Green Movement’s political vision statement is one of the best political documents I have read in a long time. It is comprehensive, visionary and at the same time, realpolitik.

This is a moral issue and an issue concerning the ability of people of the three faiths to live together in this land and in this city.

Peace is not built solely by reaching agreements on paper – this is necessary, but not enough. Peace must be built on the ground – from the bottom up. We must begin to transform words and concepts into new realities.

Gershon Baskin believes that in the absence of real hope that the heads of the Israeli and Palestinian negotiating teams might actually reach an agreement, it is the local leaders who provide the real hope that peace is reachable and not solely a vision on the horizon that continually moves away from us.

Gershon Baskin, in a meeting with the head of the Palestinian Water Authority, Mr. Shaddad Atilli, proposes to ship water from Turkey to Gaza using Spragg water bags.

Gershon Baskin calls Palestinians and Israelis who support real peace with Palestinians to wake up now and to begin to prepare the strategy for failure, that we hope will never have to be used. Failure in negotiations may happen. Violence after failure should not be the answer. It is time to get smart.