Hope for Peace
If you are pro-Israel, and are concerned with Israel’s survival, democracy and ability to be part of the region where we live, than you are pro-peace and must be in favor of compromise.
If you are pro-Israel, and are concerned with Israel’s survival, democracy and ability to be part of the region where we live, than you are pro-peace and must be in favor of compromise.
While we all strive towards a solution to the conflict that will bring peace to the two peoples, we will actually sabotage those efforts by not confronting the painful truths that underlie the conflict.
Children of Abraham Coalition presented it’s 2008 People’s Peace Award to Gershon Baskin.
Gershon Baskin and Hanna Siniora are pioneers, and together they have elevated and expanded the discourse of Peace despite tremendously difficult times.
Gershon Baskin and Hanna Siniora, the leaders of the first joint Israeli- Palestinian think tank, Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI), will share a first-hand assessment of the state of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process in these uncertain times.
Gershon Baskin, Israeli director of an Israeli/Palestinian think tank, fears that the window of opportunity for a two state solution is rapidly closing
Gershon Baskin claims that the original People to People (P2P) program was entrusted to the Norwegian government, as an act of gratitude for having handled the Oslo Accords
As a neo-Zionist I am more concerned with the Jewish future than the Jewish past, and as such I recognize that we must come forth from the passages of Torah into the reality of the 21st century Middle East, and make the necessary concessions now so that our neighbors can live with the same collective and national dignity that we demand for ourselves.
Gershon Baskin has endorsed a version of the new Olmert-Bush nostrum for reviving a peace process with the de-Hamasified Abbas.
Gershon Baskin’s research has shown that fear of the Palestinians, lack of trust in both their aspirations and their ability to be partners for peace are the greatest obstacles to Israeli willingness to move ahead toward a peace process and toward making concessions.