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Gershon Baskin as a Community field worker in Kfar Qara
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Where do they belong?

Gershon Baskin senses that the Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel have been struggling to be recognized as full Israeli citizens.

By Gershon Baskin, 6 yearsFebruary 5, 2020 ago
Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu at Trump Tower, September 25, 2016. Credit: Israel Government Press Office (GPO)
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The concept, merger & acquisition and the road show

Gershon Baskin senses that as history should teach us, we will either fight to the death or divide the land or find a way to share it. He cannot see any other options.

By Gershon Baskin, 6 yearsJanuary 29, 2020 ago
Gershon Baskin at the Fatah and Hamas at crossroads conference, Tel Aviv, December 19, 2012
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Prejudices and ignorance among Israeli settlers in the West Bank

Gershon Baskin has always tried to express that the Zionist movement was not a colonialist movement because it was based on the idea of people returning to their ancestral homeland.

By Gershon Baskin, 6 yearsJanuary 22, 2020 ago
Gershon Baskin at the Political Science Department of Metropolitan State University of Denver on Monday, March 17, 2008.
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Maybe next time

Gershon Baskin yearns towards a political movement which is inclusive and open and embraces all of Israel’s citizens.

By Gershon Baskin, 6 yearsJanuary 15, 2020 ago
energy storage
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The next disruptive technology

Gersshon Baskin believes that it is impossible to predict the next disruptive technology, although energy storage is something he would bet on

By Gershon Baskin, 6 yearsJanuary 7, 2020 ago
Marwan Barghouthi
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A Palestinian Mandela and an Israeli de Klerk

Gershon Baskin thinks that Israelis and Palestinians need a Mandela and a deKlerk.

By Gershon Baskin, 6 yearsJanuary 1, 2020 ago
Palestinians supporting Hamas chant slogans during a rally celebrating Hamas student supporters winning the student council election at Birzeit University in Ramallah. (photo credit:REUTERS)
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Palestinians must be given chance to express their opinions in elections

Gersshon Baskin feels that a majority of Palestinians want neither Fatah nor Hamas.

By Gershon Baskin, 6 yearsDecember 18, 2019 ago
Palestinians supporting Hamas chant slogans during a rally celebrating Hamas student supporters winning the student council election at Birzeit University in Ramallah. (photo credit:REUTERS)
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Palestinian democracy

Gershon Baskin believes that if Israel is not prepared to allow the participation of east Jerusalem Palestinians in the Palestinian Authority elections, then it should place them in the voters’ registry for the upcoming Knesset elections.

By Gershon Baskin, 6 yearsDecember 18, 2019 ago
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu votes in national election, March 17, 2015. (photo credit:MARC ISRAEL SELLEM)
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Taking over the land

Gershon Baskin explains why Israel needs a regime change and the people of Israel need to be liberated from 51 years of occupation and control over the Palestinian people.

By Gershon Baskin, 6 yearsDecember 12, 2019 ago
Gershon Baskin joins the Family of Avraham Abera Mengistu to mark two years since his disappearance.
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Bring our citizens home

Gershon Baskin proposes that Israel release the remaining ex-Palestinian prisoners, with the exception of those who broke the terms of their parole, and then perhaps the real negotiations will get underway.

By Gershon Baskin, 6 yearsDecember 5, 2019 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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