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Alexander Kliment

Alexander Kliment is director of content at GZERO Media, Eurasia Group's global politics oriented independent media spinoff. He is also senior editor of the global politics newsletter Signal and directs Puppet Regime, GZERO's political satire puppet series. Prior to Alexander's current role, he was Eurasia Group's director of global research for corporates, leading a team of analysts assessing political risk at the global, country, and sectoral levels for multinational corporations and institutions. Alexander first joined Eurasia Group as a specialist on Russia and the post-Soviet states, and he later co-founded the firm's Emerging Markets Strategy practice. Before joining Eurasia Group, Alexander worked as a journalist for The Financial Times in Washington, DC, and Sao Paulo, Brazil. He is a fluent speaker of Spanish, Russian, and Portuguese.
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Why Israel’s war aims may “break Israeli society”

Gershon Baskin shares with Alexander Kliment why although we will never forget what happened, what they did to us, what we did to them. there is a possibility that at the end of this, we will all make our leaders pay for where they brought us, and we will have what I’ve been calling our Belfast moment, recognizing that in Belfast, it was not a moment, it was a process.

By Alexander Kliment, 2 yearsNovember 19, 2023 ago
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Dealing with Hamas: What a former hostage negotiator learned

Alex Kliment spoke with Gershon Baskin who claims that Israel is willing to pay a high price to secure the release of the hostages, and discusses if Israel will agree to the price Hamas wants.

By Alexander Kliment, 2 yearsNovember 18, 2023 ago
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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