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Gershon Baskin discusses What Happened to Peace in the Middle East?
On the 20th anniversary of the Oslo Peace Accords (1993 – 2013), Gershon Baskin shares his thoughts on What Happened to Peace in the Middle East.
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Gershon Baskin on Palestinian-Israeli Peace
Gershon Baskin shares his ideas on how to achieve peace in the midst of the conflict in the Middle East.
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Gershon Baskin speaks about Gilad Shalit release
Gershon Baskin shares the highly emotional story of the kidnapping and murder of Sasson Nuriel, one of his wife’s first cousins, and his decision to do “everything humanly possible” to save the lives of other kidnapped people, should the occasions arise.
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Gershon Baskin addresses the Center for Citizen Peacebuilding and International Studies
Gershon Baskin speaks at UC Irvine about 20 Years After the Oslo Peace Accords (1993-2013) – What Happened to Peace in the Middle East?
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Gershon Baskin addresses the Olive Tree Initiative
Gershon Baskin focused on the negotiations, the possibility of a two-state solution, and lessons learned from Israeli-Palestinian process, with Olive Tree Initiative students.
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Israeli and Palestinian textbooks rife with ‘crimes of omission’
Gershon Baskin feels that the educational textbooks on both sides have absence of a clear, outright recognition of existence and the other side’s right to exist,
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Hamas flagship university grooms Hebrew teachers
Gershon Baskin thinks that regardless of Hamas’ intentions, teaching Hebrew could open doors of understanding, and it has the potential to change world views.
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Gershon Baskin shares his views about Gaza at Tel Aviv University
Gershon Baskin guesses that he has logged more hours of discussion with the Hamas than any other Israeli, which makes him uniquely qualified to share his knowledge about the Hamas.
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Fatah and Hamas at Crossroads: Reconcile or Separate?
Gershon Baskin talks about how there was an actual chance for reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas, but moderate forces in Gaza were weakened with the war against Israel.
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Israeli-European Young Diplomats Forum discuss role of third-party negotiations in diplomacy
Gershon Baskin, initiator of the back-channel negotiations that led to the release of Gilad Shalit, expounded upon his concrete activities as a private “third-party” negotiator both in the Gilad Shalit case as well with regard to the most recent failed cease-fire negotiations between Israel and Hamas.