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Gershon Baskin believes that there are many ways to negotiate better agreements and raise the chances that genuine peace could be attainable.

Gershon Baskin lists what should be done because it is the right thing to do and because we always have to remember that there will be a day after the war where two million Palestinians will still be living in Gaza as Israel’s neighbors.

Gershon Baskin believes that at the end of the day there are two people atop the negotiations “One is Yahya Sinwar on the Hamas side, and the other is Benjamin Netanyahu on the Israeli side.

Gershon Baskin writes an open letter to Marwan Barghouthi asking him if he is the person who will write the new chapter of our shared destinies?

Gershon Baskin believes that we are living through a terrible time. But these horrors are precisely why now is the time that Americans, along with all of the OECD countries, together with Israelis and Palestinians must embrace a peace of no choice.

Gershon Baskin shares a play by play description of his discussions with the Hamas between October 7 and October 30, 2023.

Gershon Baskin believes that there are five essential elements for creating a situation in Gaza that together, in coordination and even in parallel, must occur in order to have a chance for stability, security, reconstruction and development in Gaza, and even a realistic renewed peace process.

Gershon Baskin firmly believes that neither side should have the notion that they have more rights than the other side and in order for us to have that restart, it must begin by accepting the principle that everyone living between the River and the Sea has the same right to the same right. This is where our new beginning can take its first steps – and it must begin there.

Gershon Baskin writes an open letter to Ghazi Hamad, who was the Hamas chairman of the border crossings authority in the Gaza Strip and Deputy Foreign Minister in the Hamas government of 2012.