Gershon Baskin

Political and social entrepreneur activist in Israel and Palestine

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Nov 3, 2024, 5:19 PM

How To End the War in Gaza and Bring Home the Hostages

The following are axioms: • The war in Gaza will not end until all of the Israeli and foreign hostages are freed from Gaza. • The war will not end as long as Hamas continues to rule Gaza. • Hamas may be...

Oct 14, 2024, 6:53 PM

New Opportunities for Lebanon and for Israel

There appears to be no planned end game for the war in Lebanon. When will it be safe to have the residents of the north of Israel return to their homes? Are we heading towards another Israeli occupied south...

Sep 29, 2024, 7:03 AM

The Biden legacy: The president who brought home the hostages!

Biden’s Legacy – The wars in Gaza and Lebanon, or ending the Wars in Gaza and Lebanon? Only President Joe Biden can bring the hostages home and end the war in Gaza. Will this be his legacy or will it...

Sep 27, 2024, 4:36 PM

Basics Dynamics of the 3-Week Plan to Bring All of the Hostages Home

Basics Dynamics of the Three-Week Plan A Wishful Thinking Proposal Gershon Baskin September 27, 2024 ENDING THE WAR IN GAZA, RETURNING THE HOSTAGES, AND A NEW REGIME IN GAZA Before this plan enters into implementation, with the agreement of Hamas, President Mahmoud Abbas will...

Aug 21, 2024, 2:22 PM

Rebuilding Hope

In 1972, at the age of 16, living in America, I already knew that Israel was the place where I felt home. I was a very political teenager, I started protesting against the war in Vietnam at the age...

Aug 17, 2024, 11:44 AM

The last Israeli-Palestinian war

People of courage on both sides must stand up now and say: I am sorry, we have crossed moral red lines that should never be crossed

Aug 7, 2024, 1:00 PM

Bring the hostages home and ending the war in 6 weeks

From what I know and from what I understand, if I was one of the heads of the Israeli negotiating team, I would submit my resignation to Netanyahu. My integrity would not allow me to continue to play the...

Jul 23, 2024, 6:13 AM

I haven’t been in Palestinian areas of the West Bank since the beginning of the war. This is very unusual for me, because before the war I was in Palestinian cities and towns all over the West Bank every...

Jul 8, 2024, 11:59 PM

The Path Not Taken

Israel’s so-called leaders, in the coalition and the opposition, would like us all to believe that Israel must live by the sword forever or perish. This has been the basis of Israel’s failed strategic position for 76 years. Now...

Jun 15, 2024, 3:25 PM

An open letter to Palestinians: You can break this cycle

Israeli security forces surround Palestinians and peace activists while they plant olive trees, in the Palestinian village of Burin, near the West Bank city of Nablus, February 4, 2021. (Flash90)

It is time to make clear that you seek to build your own country with honor and dignity – not in place of Israel, but next to it

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About Me

The writer is the Middle East Director of ICO - International Communities Organization - a UK based NGO working in Conflict zones with failed peace processes. Baskin is a political and social entrepreneur who has dedicated his life to peace between Israel and her neighbors. He is also a founding member of “Kol Ezraheiha - Kol Muwanteneiha” (All of the Citizens) political party in Israel.

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