Interviews

Dr. Gershon Baskin, took us to the brand new Palestinian city of Rawabi, where wee saw the innovative and impressive models of a city that will house Palestinians of all backgrounds. Baskin’s assessment is that supporting the emerging Palestine is not only the morally correct thing to do for Palestinians, but is also the best guaranteed security for the Israel that many of us hope to see: an open democracy situated side-by-side with its neighboring state, Palestine.

Gershon Baskin thinks that here is no peace process and there is no reason to think that there will even be one, as the Palestinians are now completely convinced that their international strategy is the only way to move forward.

Gershon Baskin, thinks that Netanyahu is not offering any solution as to what Israel will do with the Palestinian people, nor saying what cancelling the two-state solution would mean in terms of the region or our relations with the world.

Gershon Baskin is cited in this study as saying that official statements coming from the Palestinian Authority (PA) or the Israeli government would help to place Dialogue-Based Initiatives in a better light. Yet no public legitimacy has been given to joint initiatives

Gershon Baskin shares his list of eight things that are vital elements to a peace resolution.

Gershon Baskin shares his views at the The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University (CMES) in Sweden

Ghazi Hamad, deputy foreign minister of Hamas, responded to an appeal by Israeli peace activist Gershon Baskin to negotiate the release of Gilad Shalit. For three months, Hamad conveyed messages from the Hamas government to then-prime minister Ehud Olmert, through Baskin and Olmert’s daughter Dana.

Gershon Baskin, who was behind the momentous release of Gilad Shalit, told an audience that there is no area of life in Israel in which Arabs are not discriminated against.

Gershon Baskin, the man who helped free kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. claims that Jews around the world will continue to pay the price for a stalled peace process.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas stated that Israel and Hamas, are engaged in direct contact. Ghazi Hamad, the go-between who, on behalf of Hamas, oversaw at the time the negotiations for the release of Shalit, working with Gershon Baskin. According to a Palestinian source, “When President Abbas says there are contacts, this is based on vetted information that we have gathered and cross-referenced”.