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US Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. US Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Photo: REUTERS
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Encountering Peace: From David to Goliath

Palestinians are fighting for exactly what we Jews fought for – freedom, independence, identity.

By Gershon Baskin, 12 yearsMay 21, 2014 ago
Kurds erect large Kurdistan flag in Syria protest
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Encountering peace: From Kurdistan to Israel

There are significant differences between the various Kurdish regions in the area, including within Iraq itself. Kurds erect large Kurdistan flag in Syria protest.

By Gershon Baskin, 12 yearsMay 14, 2014 ago
Iranian FM Mohammad Javad Zarif (L) and EE foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton at nuclear talks in Vienna March 19, 2014. Photo: REUTERS
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Encountering Peace: The Iranian connection

The increasing animosity between Netanyahu and Obama put an end to Israeli-Palestinian negotiations way before they reached their end on April 29, 2014.

By Gershon Baskin, 12 yearsMay 7, 2014 ago
John Kerry
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Encountering peace: People of Israel – Wake Up!

A unitary state winds up either being an apartheid state with second-class citizens – or it ends up being a state that destroys the capacity of Israel to be a Jewish state.

By Gershon Baskin, 12 yearsApril 30, 2014 ago
Ismail Abdel Salam Ahmed Haniyeh and Mahmoud Abbas
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PLO-Hamas Reconciliation

Questions and Thoughts about a Hamas-PLO reconciliation

By Gershon Baskin, 12 yearsApril 23, 2014 ago
Netanyahu and Kerry, March 31, 2014. Photo: DAVID AZAGURY, US EMBASSY TEL AVIV
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The charade is almost over

Netanyahu has failed his state and his people. He has failed history. He had a chance, he could have done it. He decided to play petty politics.

By Gershon Baskin, 12 yearsApril 23, 2014 ago
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu speaks to the cabinet, April 6, 2014. Photo: AMIT SHABAY/POOL
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Encountering Peace: Netanyahu’s options

Israel has the ability to “cut to the chase” and to understand that in order to protect its own interests the best thing to do is to find the path toward agreement.

By Gershon Baskin, 12 yearsApril 16, 2014 ago
Abbas returns to Ramallah from US Photo: REUTERS
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Encountering peace: If Palestine can’t exist without Israeli agreement, agree now and move forward

The Palestinian Authority’s fiscal stability is already on the verge of collapse – a little push and it could easily go over the edge.

By Gershon Baskin, 12 yearsApril 9, 2014 ago
The Middle East
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Framework document for the establishment of permanent peace

In January 2014 I drafted this document and shared it with the Israeli, Palestinian and US negotiators.

By Gershon Baskin, 12 yearsApril 2, 2014 ago
Syrian refugee center
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Palestinian refugees in Syria

With people dying every day and living through unimaginable suffering, why not offer them a new life today? Why wait for tomorrow? Bring them home to Palestine now!

By Gershon Baskin, 12 yearsMarch 12, 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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