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Se acabó la tregua en Gaza: The Truce in Gaza is over

Gershon Baskin shares his ideas with the Vatican media on the blockade of humanitarian aid to Gaza and yesterday morning’s incursions in various areas of the Strip.

By Roberto Cetera, 1 yearMarch 4, 2025 ago
Activists, including Israelis and Palestinians, take part in a demonstration in support of peace near Jericho. (photo credit:REUTERS)
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False conceptions

Gershon Baskin senses that there will never be peace and security for only one of the sides.. It’s live together or die together.. it is now time for the peace of no choice.

By Gershon Baskin, 1 yearMarch 2, 2025 ago
PA finance minister Shukri Bishara shakes hands with his Israeli counter part Yair Lapid, June 16 2013. Photo by Anat Hamemi
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Moving Forward

Gershon Baskin feels that it is time to move from the concept of the war of no choice to the concept of the peace of no choice.

By Gershon Baskin, 1 yearFebruary 28, 2025 ago
Hamas Harakat al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyya (Islamic Resistance Movement)
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Finishing Hamas

Gershon Baskin believes that the war will truly end only when no hostages remain in Gaza and Hamas no longer governs it, both administratively or militarily. This objective can only be achieved through a political solution and regional cooperation

By Gershon Baskin, 1 yearFebruary 27, 2025 ago
From the River to the Sea
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At the Crossroads

Gershon Baskin firmly believes that It is now upon us to choose the path of basing our future on knowing that there will never be a solution until everyone living between the River and the Sea has the same right to the same rights.

By Gershon Baskin, 1 yearFebruary 23, 2025 ago
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Audio

Israel-Hamas ceasefire under strain once more

Gershon Baskin shares his ideas regarding why the shaky ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas is under strain again and why Israel wants an end to the public spectacle around the release of hostages, who’ve been paraded in front of large crowds and sometimes forced to praise their captors.

By Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1 yearFebruary 23, 2025 ago
CNN
Interviews

What we’ve seen so far and what we’re expecting

Gershon Baskin shares with CNN his perspectives regarding getting the deal done.

By Gershon Baskin, 1 yearFebruary 22, 2025 ago
Channel 13 Israel
Interviews

Where is the body of Shiri Bibas

Gershon Baskin shares with Israel Channel 13 his insights regarding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alleging that Hamas “put the body of a Gazan woman in a coffin” instead of the body of Shiri Bibas.

By Cathy Newman, 1 yearFebruary 21, 2025 ago
Ghazi Hamad, deputy foreign minister of Hamas.
Insights

A letter to Ghazi Hamed

In an open letter to Ghazi Hamad, Gershon Baskin shares that there is no winner in this war – we all lost. Palestine lost. Hamas lost. Israel lost.

By Gershon Baskin, 1 yearFebruary 17, 2025 ago
PALESTINIAN MEMBERS of a Hamas unit parade in Gaza on Sunday. (photo credit:REUTERS)
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Phase One – Back on Schedule….BUT…..

Gershon Baskin feels that Israelis and Palestinians will never have security unless both of them have security. Hard to swallow now while we are all still living in trauma and fear, but this war really must be the last Israeli Palestinian war.

By Gershon Baskin, 1 yearFebruary 13, 2025 ago

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The Negotiator: Freeing Gilad Shalit from Hamas

The Negotiator: Freeing Gilad Shalit from Hamas
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In 2006, Gilad Schalit was kidnapped by a group of Gaza militants. Decades of animosity and distrust thwarted any attempt at a prisoner exchange. THE NEGOTIATOR is the firsthand account of Gershon Baskin, who made it his mission to liberate Gilad Schalit. Baskin drew on his ties to Hamas to create a secret back channel and succeeded where official mediators had failed, paving the way for the deal that brought Gilad home.
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In Pursuit of Peace in Israel & Palestine


In his latest book, In Pursuit of Peace in Israel & Palestine, Gershon Baskin reveals how relations in the Middle East are based on justified fear, influenced by lack of human contact and reinforced by continued violence that solidify patterns of thinking and behavior that negatively influence public policies.

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Freeing Gilad: The Secret Back Channel

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"Free Gilad" is the story of an unprecedented secret communication channel developed by Gershon Baskin developed that made a decisive contribution towards the release of Gilad Shalit.
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