Gershon Baskin stated that, even if the conflict goes on, civil society continues cooperating, despite the temporary freeze in official Israeli dialogue with the Palestinian Authority, including the work of Joint Water Committee.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center may be going too far by trying to build a museum on a Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem.
Gershon Baskin explained that the conference had been planned when relations between Israelis and Palestinians had begun to look optimistic.
Gershon Baskin organized the International Conference on Education for Peace and Democracy held in Antalya, Turkey.
Gershon Baskin explains that the way he does “peace” is that when one side says something, the other side gets a chance to also say something.
Gershon Baskin claims that he knows that [Hamas Prime Minister Ismail] Haniyeh and his people want a cease-fire, and want it to be observed by Israel as well.
In his address to the United Nations Seminar of Assistance to the Palestinian People held in Cairo, Gershon Baskin said that the Israelis and the Palestinians did not have the tools or ability to resolve the conflict by themselves.
Gershon Baskin wants us to imagine the outrage if the Palestinians were building a Museum of Tolerance (or anything else) on what was once a Jewish cemetery.
Gershon Baskin believes that Sharon’s biggest political achievement was the reshaping of the political map in Israel and the distance between right and left in Israel shrunk considerably under Sharon, forcing the rise and the significance of the center of the map.
Gershon Baskin predicts that many settlers will be demoralised, while others might commit suicide.