Interviews
Facing Risky Options for Gaza Hostages, U.S. Turns to Longtime Mediator
Gesrshon Baskin feels that to sacrifice hostages and soldiers seems to be the psychology today.
Gesrshon Baskin feels that to sacrifice hostages and soldiers seems to be the psychology today.
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.