Interviews

Gershon Baskin, a sincere Anglo-Israeli, has provided reasons for the Palestinian demand for Jerusalem to be the Capital of a Palestinian State.

Gershon Baskin claims that to overcome the lack of mutual trust, the only way is secret back-channel talks. Netanyahu cannot go into a real negotiation with the Palestinians and keep his government. Abbas can’t go into a serious negotiation with Israelis and keep stability on his own side.

Gershon Baskin feels that the legitimacy deficit of the Palestinian state profoundly affected the PA’s ability to engage in the peace process and fulfill the Israeli requests for more effective Counter-Terrorism (CT) measures without appearing a puppet who fought its own people for the sake of the enemy.

Gershon Baskin was part of Interns for Peace, co-founded by Bruce M. Cohen, that trained and sent more than 300 interns to work on community development projects in dozens of Arab and Jewish villages.

Gershon Baskin, a longtime peace activist thinks that in future agreements there must be no constructive ambiguity and the language has to be explicit.

Gershon Baskin reiterates the lesson he learned as a young Judaean is that Israel is our home and coming here, making aliya, is a change of the essence of your life – and when you make that decision, it’s a life decision.

Gershon Baskin from the Israel / Palestine Centre for Research and Information, gave a gripping blow by blow account of the process of negotiating the release of Gilad Shalit in which he was intimately involved. Cross-accusations among Jewish leaders in debate on Israel spill over into annual Limmud Oz conference.

Gershon Baskin from the Israel / Palestine Centre for Research and Information gave a gripping blow by blow account of the process of negotiating the release of Gilad Shalit in which he was intimately involved at the Limmud Oz.