Gilad Shalit Deal: An Inside Look At Israel-Hamas Backchannel Talks -- Joshua Mitnick, Christian Science Monitor
Gershon Baskin - Israel's key link to Hamas during negotiations for the Gilad Shalit prisoner swap - speaks on how and why both sides decided to make concessions to reach an agreement.
Hamas and Israel both paid homage to Egypt for mediating their landmark prisoner swap that freed 477 Palestinian prisoners in return for Gilad Shalit. But what neither acknowledged officially is that throughout the final stages of negotiations they were talking bilaterally through their own unofficial envoys.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
Taking aim at Iran’s Revolutionary Guards -- Ilan Berman, The Washington Times
The Irrationality That Is Iran -- Richard Cohen, Washington Post
Pakistan's Alternate Universe: What possible motive does Islamabad have for supporting Afghanistan's bloody insurgency? -- John R. Schmidt, Foreign Policy
In Libya, echoes of when the CIA's Afghan funding went wrong -- Steve LeVine, Foreign Policy
Imagined in America: U.S. Chinese relations -- Thomas Friedman, New York Times
Japan's new PM visits South Korea. Will the visit bring the countries closer? -- Donald Kirk, Christian Science Monitor
The wrong way to fight terrorism -- Salam Al-Marayati, L.A. Times
In Greece, protests, desperation, and 'the mother of all strikes.' Which way forward? -- Robert Marquand, Christian Science Monitor
Greek to U.S.? -- Sen. Jim DeMint, Washington Examiner
Is an Israeli life really more important than a Palestinian's? -- Deborah Orr, The Guardian
Gilad Shalit’s Release -- New York Times editorial
Saving Shalit, Encouraging Terror -- Walter Reich, New York Times
Saving ‘Private’ Schalit and the defenseless Jewish state -- Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post
The Conflicting Values Behind The Shalit Deal -- Alon Pinkas, Foreign Affairs
Israel's Difficult Decision -- Elliott Abrams, Weekly Standard
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