Gershon Baskin

Political and social entrepreneur activist in Israel and Palestine

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Mar 10, 2025, 11:56 AM

A Bi-National Commission on Trust Building

This paper is a call to Israelis and Palestinians to together create a Bi-National Commission on Trust Building. This should be done at the national governmental level, but it will not be done by the people who call themselves...

Mar 2, 2025, 4:09 PM

False conceptions

The Failure The first of the Israeli army self-investigations are being released to the public and one of the clear elements appearing in the reports is the claim of the false conceptions which guided Israel’s “strategic” calculations. That false conception,...

Feb 23, 2025, 2:57 PM

At the Crossroads

We stand at a very dangerous and crucial crossing point at this moment. Do we move to Phase 2 of the ceasefire deal or does Israel renew the war and essentially sacrifice the remaining 63 hostages? The main difficulty...

Dec 19, 2024, 11:33 PM

The Golan Heights Peace Park

The collapse of the regime of Bashar al-Assad has opened new possibilities for Syria and Israel. The new Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, better known by his nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Julani, seems to be trying to present a...

Dec 5, 2024, 4:29 PM

A Sober Assessment

It is very difficult to assess where we are regarding negotiations to end the war in Gaza and to bring the hostages home. In September, two Hamas leaders from the Hamas politburo, one of them a member of the...

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...

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About Me

The writer is a political and social entrepreneur who has spent his adult life working on securing peace between Israel and her neighbors. He is a founding member and Co-Director of the Two States Alliance and the Middle East Director of the UK-based NGO International Communities Organization (ICO).

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