Gershon Baskin

Political and social entrepreneur activist in Israel and Palestine

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Apr 28, 2025, 5:49 PM

Could Marwan Barghouthi be the solution?

Marwan Barghouthi has been in prison for 23 years. He is the most popular Palestinian leader. I have known Marwan since 1996 from the many meetings that he participated in between Palestinian and Israeli politicians and security personnel that...

Mar 26, 2025, 8:26 PM

How to Achieve Israeli-Palestinian Peace

In 2007, I conducted in-depth research on the public opinion of Israelis regarding the two-states solution and peace with the Palestinians. The results were quite dramatic and pointed to very clear steps that need to be taken to change...

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...

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Gershon Baskin, together with Samer Sinijlaw head the Alliance for Two States

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