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Gershon Baskin on Permanent Truce Deal Assassinated Jabari was Working on

From On November 16, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Speaking to Democracy Now! Gershon Baskin — the Israeli peace activist who assisted the process that led to Hamas’ release of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit — offers his thoughts on the permanent truce deal he was working on with military leader Ahmed Jabari (who Aluf Benn writes was a [...]

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Urging a more cautious reading of Wikileaks on Iran-Iraq connections

From On November 2, 2010 · Leave a Comment

My new piece just went up at the website of the Columbia Journalism Review. It covers some of the Iran hawks conclusions about the revelations, from the Wikileaks document dumps, about the alleged Iranian support for Iraqi militias.

I urge that, given the example of the campaign for the Iraq War and the reliance [...]

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