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Former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, former US president Bill Clinton, and the late PLO leader Yasser Arafat on the White House lawn.. (photo credit:REUTERS)
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The missed opportunities

An agreement that would enable Israel to confront the common threats from Islamic radicalism that face our neighbors.

By Gershon Baskin, 12 yearsDecember 17, 2014 ago
Gershon Baskin and Mohammad Abbas (Abu Mazen)
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We want peace, but they don’t

It is not fate that has created the lack of partners – it is the work of leaders who have failed. Now we need new leaders who will refuse to fail and will not try to convince us that peace is only the naïve dream of false prophets. Peace is a decision first, and then it is made through actions.

By Gershon Baskin, 12 yearsDecember 10, 2014 ago
Netanyahu in the Knesset with Ya'alon, Lapid and others, December 3, 2014. (photo credit:MARC ISRAEL SELLEM)
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Our future is in our hands

Our prime minister, who is running for reelection, has no desire to make peace with the Palestinians, because he is simply not willing to pay the price.

By Gershon Baskin, 12 yearsDecember 3, 2014 ago
Jewish Youths in Israel wave flags and stand atop a hill. The author recalls his own young days in Zionist youth groups
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Defining who we are

I hope and pray that the Palestinian state will have a Jewish minority and that it will decide to define itself as the nation state of the Palestinian people and all of its citizens.

By Gershon Baskin, 12 yearsNovember 26, 2014 ago
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Unlike religious wars, political wars have solutions

There will be no hope, security or peace in Jerusalem until Jerusalem is the capital of two countries – Israel and Palestine.

By Gershon Baskin, 12 yearsNovember 19, 2014 ago
Binyamin Netanyahu. (photo credit:REUTERS)
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If we had a real leader

It is doubtful that Netanyahu ever really supported the two-state solution that he spoke of in his Bar-Ilan speeches.

By Gershon Baskin, 12 yearsNovember 12, 2014 ago
A visitor walks toward the Dome of the Rock as he enters the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City. (photo credit:REUTERS)
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Jerusalem of Peace, Jerusalem of War

The separation wall that was built around the city in the south, east and north, was constructed to keep Palestinians out of the city.

By Gershon Baskin, 12 yearsNovember 5, 2014 ago
Gershon Baskin at the University of Maryland
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Negotiating With Hamas: What the man who negotiated Gilad Schalit’s release can teach us about Israel’s future

Dr. Gershon Baskin explains in great details how the negotiations for Gilad Shalit’s release can teach us about Israel’s future.

By Gershon Baskin, 12 yearsNovember 4, 2014 ago
Binyamin Netanyahu
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No tango going on at all

There will be no progress on the economic front until we all understand that it is all connected to not having peace with our neighbors.

By Gershon Baskin, 12 yearsOctober 29, 2014 ago
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (R) and his chief peace negotiator, Saeb Erekat, in Ramallah. (photo credit:REUTERS)
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Saving the two-state solution

The Palestinians have intelligently named their strategy the “plan to save the two-state solution.”

By Gershon Baskin, 12 yearsOctober 22, 2014 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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