As a secret negotiator, Gershon Baskin played a key role in bringing home the soldier Gilad Schalit from Gaza, who was kidnapped by Hamas in 2006. Why he considers Israel’s efforts to release the hostages to be a disaster today.
It’s war, and the news situation this morning is also catastrophic. Iran is threatening attacks on Israel, the deaths continue in Gaza, and there are no signs of progress in Cairo, where negotiations are currently underway again about the release of the Israeli hostages from the hands of Hamas. Gershon Baskin is standing in the kitchen of his Jerusalem home, brewing coffee and saying: “I don’t sleep at night anymore. I really don’t know how the families of the hostages are supposed to sleep.”