Gershon Baskin joined world leaders from Russia, Jordan, Bahrain, Syria, Egypt, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, United States, France, Iran, Lebanon at the United Kingdom at the Middle East 2020: Is a Comprehensive Settlement Possible? conference in Jordan.
Gershon Baskin believes that there is no bilateral solution. The fastest road to the next round of violence is through another failed negotiation process … and it has zero chance. Next year … could be ripe for an explosion.
Gershon Baskin and Palestinian Hanna Siniora run one of the oldest and boldest of the truly collaborative undertakings between the two peoples, and it recently won an award as one of the world’s best NGOs
One can exhaust the resources of the thesaurus trying to come up words to describe Dr. Gershon Baskin — determined, stubborn, resolute, resilient, indefatigable.
Gershon Baskin describes Palestinian Prime Minister Salaam Fayad’s plan as “one of the most positive and optimistic developments of recent times”.
Dr. Gershon Baskin made an impassioned plea for the Israeli public to wake up and reinvigorate the vanished pro-peace lobby. But it is not only the domestic lobby which needs to get its act together. Our progressive pro-peace friends abroad also need to work on influencing their respective governments, and the US administration in particular, to exert real pressure on both Israelis and Palestinians to implement difficult compromises.
Gershon Baskin believes the only way to achieve Mideast peace is by having the international community impose a Palestinian state on Israel.
Gershon Baskin claims that Israel can’t be overrun with Palestinian refugees, because then there will be two Palestinian states, and no Jewish state.
Gershon Baskin has presented a demonstration voyage plan that uses waterbag technology to transport Turkish water to Gaza to various Israeli, Turkish, Palestinian, Jordanian and American government and business representatives.
Gershon Baskin admits that chances for his peace plan are close to zero, and added that unless affirmative action is taken internationally, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will rumble on indefinitely.