2024-12-06
33 分钟Gershon Baskin on his experience as a hostage negotiator in the Israel-Palestine conflict Because of industrial action taking place by members of the National Union of Journalists at the Guardian and Observer this week, we are re-running an episode from earlier in the year.. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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Today, how to get a hostage deal between Israel and Hamas from a man who's made one before and knows what it takes.
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Israel is at the moment consumed by protests and discontent over the fate of more than 100 Israeli hostages in Gaza.
This country was built on some core values.
Part of them is strictly that the government of Israel will do everything in its power to bring back hostages and soldiers from captivity, wherever they are.
For nearly a year now, there's been no deal to free them and to end a war that's killed more than 40,000 Palestinians, mostly civilians.
But even between such vicious enemies, hostage deals are possible.
The Israeli negotiator, Gershon Baskin, knows that because he's helped to put one together.
That was my mission.
That was my job.
I would talk to the devil if that was necessary to bring them home.
For years, he was possibly the only Israeli in regular contact with a senior Hamas leader.
They talked on the phone hundreds of times, met each other, had deep, serious conversations about how these two sides could, if not make peace, at least forge a kind of long term truce.