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Gaza Palestinians survey the wreckage of an IAF strike that killed two terrorists in Gaza. Photo: REUTERS
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Encountering Peace: Don’t destroy Gaza, build it!

We need to help the people of Gaza replace Hamas by providing them with hope and a better future, something Hamas has never provided.

By Gershon Baskin, 12 yearsJuly 2, 2014 ago
Youtube satire of kidnapped teens Photo: YOUTUBE SCREENSHOT
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Encountering peace: Terrible times

It reminds me of the very long and sad years that Gilad Schalit was in captivity. The media had to say something.

By Gershon Baskin, 12 yearsJune 25, 2014 ago
Hamas - ?arakat al-Muq?wamah al-?Isl?miyyah. Islamic Resistance Movement
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Encountering Peace: Who did it?

My reason for doubting Hamas’s involvement is that the single most important thing to Hamas right now is to assure its continued ability to rule Gaza.

By Gershon Baskin, 12 yearsJune 18, 2014 ago
Israel Border Police Mishmar HaGvul
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Encountering peace: There is no good occupation

This plan is nothing more than an advanced and sophisticated form of colonialism.

By Gershon Baskin, 12 yearsJune 11, 2014 ago
Turning his back on the peace process?: US Secretary of State John Kerry leaves Tel Aviv, April 1, as Israeli-Palestinian peace talks collapse Photo: JACQUELYN MARTIN / POOL / REUTERS
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Annexation’s trappings

The conflict is not going away, nor is the State of Israel, nor is Palestine.

By Gershon Baskin, 12 yearsMay 28, 2014 ago
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

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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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