Interviews
Hundreds come to hear ALLMEP’s Gershon Baskin
Baskin tells his riveting story about how one man and civil society could accomplish something that eluded governments worldwide.
Interviews
Gershon Baskin asks “Is Israeli-Palestinian Peace Still Possible?” at George Washington University
Gershon Baskin asks “Is Israeli-Palestinian Peace Still Possible?” at George Washington University.
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Baskin stresses need for Israeli peace
Gershon Baskin thinks that there is a lot of complexity in resolving the Middle East conflict, because so much of this deals with the irrational and the two sides don’t act in their own best interest and don’t act logically because there is so much emotional baggage that each side carries along with it.
Interviews
To be or not to be – that is the question
Gershon Baskin was correct in assessing the magnitude and urgency of the emerging danger when he stated that we have a very short period of time remaining before we come to the conclusion that there is no longer any resolution to this conflict that enables us to have a Jewish nationstate in the Land of Israel. If this happens, it will be the end of the Zionist dream that so many have worked so hard for so long to create and sustain.
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Palestine: What Sherlock Holmes would say
Gershon Baskin’s positions….raises a question of great relevance and urgency which his ideological adversaries will ignore at great peril.
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Israel needs its own freedom riders
Gershon Baskin, is willing to participate in actions which challenge the system. He travels regularly to Area A, and is not willing to ask for a permit for himself.
Gilad Schalit
Gilad Shalit and the Rising Price of an Israeli Life
Six months before Shalit was abducted, Gershon Baskin was at a conference in Cairo, where he struck up a friendship with a professor at the Islamic University of Gaza, a member of Hamas, who put Gershon in contact with Ghazi Hamad, Hamas’s deputy foreign minister, and it was this relationship, that ultimately led to the Shalit deal.
Gilad Schalit
Meet the insiders: men who made Shalit deal happen
Gershon Baskin got a call from a Hamas member three days after Mr Shalit’s abduction asking him to act as a back-channel for talks.
Interviews
Ilana Dayan-Orbach interviews Gershon Baskin
Ilana Dayan-Orbach, an Israeli investigative journalist, anchorwoman, and attorney, best known as host of the investigative television program Uvda (“Fact”) on the Israeli Channel 2, interviews Gershon Baskin on the exchange of messages between the Hamas regarding Gilad Schalit.
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Peace Activist Spurred Prisoner Swap
Gershon Baskin was speaking for himself and trying to get into the door of the prime minister’s office to convey some of the messages he was getting from Hamas, with a view that they might be able to settle the prisoner situation