Insights
Reciprocity, mutuality – keys to Mid-East peacemaking
This is a historic moment. It is possible to reach agreement within one year and there are no better people than you to do it.
Interviews
Ilana Dayan-Orbach interviews Gershon Baskin
Ilana Dayan-Orbach, an Israeli investigative journalist, anchorwoman, and attorney, best known as host of the investigative television program Uvda (“Fact”) on the Israeli Channel 2, interviews Gershon Baskin on the exchange of messages between the Hamas regarding Gilad Schalit.
Gilad Schalit
My part in the prisoner exchange deal
Gershon Baskin shares his insights on his role in freeing Gilad Schalit.
Audio
Peace Activist Spurred Prisoner Swap
Gershon Baskin was speaking for himself and trying to get into the door of the prime minister’s office to convey some of the messages he was getting from Hamas, with a view that they might be able to settle the prisoner situation
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Gilad Shalit negotiator
If there’s one person who can claim much of the credit for Gilat Shalit’s release it’s Gershon Baskin. He was the first Isaeli to make contact with Hamas, only days after Gilad Shalit was abducted more than five years ago.
Interviews
The Shalit exchange
Gershon Baskin tells Al Jazeera that not only had Hamas been waiting for five years for Israel to get serious, the deal that Netanyahu struck was one that’s been on the table all along.
Gilad Schalit
Gershon Baskin shares insights with Teymoor Nabili of Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera’s Teymoor Nabili speaks to Gershon Baskin about his role in the negotiations leading to an Israeli-Hamas prisoner swap agreement that freed Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Gilad Shalit.
Gilad Schalit
Gershon Baskin plays a critical role in the release of Gilad Shalit
Gershon Baskin persisted in contacts with Hamas when official envoys failed to secure the release of Gilad Shalit.
Gilad Schalit
The Israeli academic who played a critical role in the Shalit deal
Gershon Baskin persisted in contacts with Hamas when official envoys failed.
Interviews
Israelis and Palestinians embrace only parts of peace initiative
Gershon Baskin thinks that both sides are trying to figure out how to say yes and no at the same time and the neither believes there is a possibility to reach a negotiated agreement, but neither wants to be held responsible for a failure of talks before they start. Israel is reluctant to agree to a timeline for border talks, and the Palestinian Authority says the proposal by the Mideast quartet doesn’t go far enough.