Interviews

Gershon Baskin discussed the the role of the United States administration in the peace process.

Gershon Baskin claims that Israel has issued entry permits to many Muslim pilgrims from countries without diplomatic ties to Israel, including Libya, Pakistan, Indonesia and even Saudi Arabia and that such visits are “low-key and under the radar.”

We agree with Baskin’s opinion that approval to build on top of the cemetery “is not a legal issue — anything can be made legal. 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.

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

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.