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Gershon Baskin, who maintains close contact with Hamas’s political leadership, thinks that Muhammad Deif is a figurehead, a symbol, the spirit, the myth, and finds it hard to imagine that he’s actually a fully functioning human being.

Gershon Baskin feels that the loss of hope is the biggest thing. We need to create human relationships with people on all “sides”, talk to each other, listen with compassion, open up our hearts and minds to each other. Ultimately, no matter what the governments do, peace is made between people, on the human dimension. We can’t allow ourselves to fall into the pit

Gershon Baskin, mediador en la negociación por la liberación del soldado israelí Gilad Shalit en 2011, habla sobre la escalada de violencia entre Israel y Gaza y sus posibles consecuencias para la región.

Gershon Baskin, who helped establish a backchannel with Hamas in 2011, thinks that Hamas seeks more than an end to strikes. Hamas faced a choice between a cease-fire that met almost none of its conditions or rejection that gave Israel diplomatic cover for further escalation.

Gershon Baskin feels that if there’s one thing all parts of Hamas agree on, it’s that an Israeli attack on Gaza builds up sympathy for it there, the West Bank and the Arab world.