[Flash Walken]

Originally Posted by blankall

I disagree. The purpose of writing this article was, in a totally hypocritical way, to influence the upcomming election. The author is an extreme left-wing Israeli. He wants those he considers to be right wing to do poor in the election.

Well, that's weird, because in March he wrote an article about how Netanyahu "is our man" (that's a quote, from him). Here's a quote from this 'extreme left-wing Israeli' in that article:

We need Netanyahu.

Not because a Netanyahu government will more effectively rebuild the Israeli left. Not because I believe that for it to get better it has to get a lot worse, though both may be true. But because there is no one, absolutely no one in the Israeli political arena who has the capability of delivering a peace deal that the Israeli mainstream (meaning both the peace skeptics like Kadima voters and the religious and right of center people who together compose the vast majority of Israeli society) would support.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...s-our-man.html

You can read more of this 'extreme left-wing Israeli' here:

For more than five years Baskin has been involved in efforts to obtain Shalit's release, despite never being asked to do so by the Israeli government and frequently getting the cold shoulder from the military establishment and the Prime Minister's Office.

Three days after Shalit's abduction Baskin received a phone call from a teacher at the Islamic University of Gaza with close ties to Hamas he met at an academic conference in Cairo a few months earlier. Israel had responded to the abduction with a major military operation in Gaza. The academic put Baskin in touch with Hamed, a spokesman for the Hamas government, with the idea of opening a communication channel with Jerusalem.

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Meidan agreed to meet with Baskin. "[He] was cautious at first, and didn't know whether I was serious," Baskin said. Meidan realized the value of the alternate avenue of communication after receiving, and obtaining confirmation of authenticity from the Shin Bet security service, a few messages from Hamed through Baskin.

In the July 14 document, Hamas agreed to accept the release of fewer of the more dangerous prisoners, ones directly responsibly for killing Israelis in terror attacks. After studying the offer, Meidan realized it was a genuine breakthrough. He asked Egyptian officials to mediate between Israel and Hamas, using the letter as a basis for the negotiations.

"Netanyahu created the big change when he decided to move ahead with the deal and bring Shalit home," Baskin said yesterday. "Meidan showed determination and willingness to think outside the box. Hamed displayed courage and commitment, based in part on his empathy for the suffering of the Shalit family and of Gilad," Baskin said.

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition...-deal-1.389789