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Gershon Baskin at Netivot Shalom
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Gershon Baskin reveals the story behind the secret backchannel that took place between Hamas and Israel

Gershon Baskin revealed the story behind the secret backchannel that took place between Hamas and Israel leading to the prisoner’s exchange and Schalit’s release in October 2011.

By MidEast Advisory Services (MEAS), 9 yearsSeptember 19, 2016 ago
Gershon Baskin joins the Family of Avraham Abera Mengistu to mark two years since his disappearance.
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Gershon Baskin joins the Family of Avraham Abera Mengistu to mark two years since his disappearance.

Gershon Baskin joined the family of Avraham Abera Mengistu, an Israeli man held by Hamas in Gaza, at a demonstration demanding his release in front of the Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem to mark two years since his disappearance.

By MidEast Advisory Services (MEAS), 10 yearsSeptember 11, 2016 ago
Jornadas por la Paz
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Gershon Baskin to address the Days For Peace conference

Gershon Baskin will speak on the subject: “Peace for Israel and Palestine: Is it Possible?” at the “Making Peace, the obstacles and the ways around them” session at the upcoming Days for Peace Conference in Mexico City.

By Alejandro Castillo, 10 yearsSeptember 9, 2016 ago
YaLa Young Leaders
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Gershon Baskin addresses the YaLa Peace Conference

Gershon Baskin addresses YaLa’s Peace Conference during which political, economic and cultural leaders shared their messages of support and encouragement for the 5th anniversary of the YaLa Young Leaders movement

By MidEast Advisory Services (MEAS), 10 yearsJune 23, 2016 ago
Opposition leader Isaac Herzog (Labor) met with PA President Mahmoud Abbas. (photo credit:Ran Aharon)
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Herzog-Abbas Accord Distorted by Press

Gershon Baskin believes that the parties started their discussions prior to the decision to go to elections and continued during the campaign. When the agreement was reached, Abbas wanted to make it public, but Herzog refused. Herzog explained that his campaign managers and PR advisors anticipated a negative effect on his electability.

By Ralph Seliger, 10 yearsJune 20, 2016 ago
Gershon Baskin and Mahmoud Abbas
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For Israelis and Palestinians, peace plans just keep coming

Gershon Baskin, an Israeli who has acted as an unofficial conduit between Israel and Palestinian leaders, personally delivered three Abbas offers for direct talks to Netanyahu’s office over the past three years.

By Ben Sales, 10 yearsJune 7, 2016 ago
Gershon Baskin and Mahmoud Abbas
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Netanyahu’s office denies Abbas offered secret talks

Gershon Baskin, who has in the past acted as a conduit between the Netanyahu government and Palestinian officials, said that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas offered three times to begin secret, direct negotiations with Netanyahu. Each time, Baskin said, Netanyahu refused.

By Raoul Wootliff, 10 yearsMay 17, 2016 ago
International Conference on the Question of Jerusalem
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International Conference on the Question of Jerusalem: Proceedings

Gershon Baskin believes that Jerusalem was a microcosm of the entire Arab-Israeli conflict and that conventional wisdom throughout years of the peace process had been to leave Jerusalem “until the end” when, in fact, it should have been the first issue on the agenda.

By MidEast Advisory Services (MEAS), 10 yearsMay 4, 2016 ago
Abbas, Netanyahu, Obama
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The Obama Parameters: Getting Israel and Palestine to a Two-State Solution

Gershon Baskin claims that Israel has refused to reconvene the US-led committee on dealing with incitement and when the committee existed after the Wye River Memorandum, they never even agreed on the definition of incitement.

By Amihai "Ami" Ayalon, 10 yearsApril 13, 2016 ago
Gershon Baskin in London. January 2016
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Gaza is on brink, says man who talks to Hamas

Gershon Baskin believes that if we had an Israeli partner who was willing to play along with the Arab Peace Initiative, we could throw the ball of Gaza over to the Arab League, and say ‘do what you did during the civil war in Lebanon’ – send in a multi-national force to disarm Hamas.

By Orlando Radice, 10 yearsJanuary 28, 2016 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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