A New York Times article by Gershon Baskin, a co-chairman
of the Israel Palestine Center for Research and Information, a columnist
for The Jerusalem Post and the initiator and negotiator of the secret
back channel for the release of Gilad Shalit.
Gershon Baskin was helping negotiation of an extended cease fire between Israel and Hamas, when Mr Jabari was killed.
" On the morning that he was killed, Mr. Jabari received a draft proposal for an extended cease-fire with Israel, including mechanisms that would verify intentions and ensure compliance. This draft was agreed upon by me and Hamas’s deputy foreign minister, Mr. Hamad, when we met last week in Egypt.
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Mr. Jabari is dead — and with him died the possibility of a long-term cease-fire. Israel may have also compromised the ability of Egyptian intelligence officials to mediate a short-term cease-fire and placed Israel’s peace treaty with Egypt at risk.
Gershon Baskin was helping negotiation of an extended cease fire between Israel and Hamas, when Mr Jabari was killed.
" On the morning that he was killed, Mr. Jabari received a draft proposal for an extended cease-fire with Israel, including mechanisms that would verify intentions and ensure compliance. This draft was agreed upon by me and Hamas’s deputy foreign minister, Mr. Hamad, when we met last week in Egypt.
(...)
Mr. Jabari is dead — and with him died the possibility of a long-term cease-fire. Israel may have also compromised the ability of Egyptian intelligence officials to mediate a short-term cease-fire and placed Israel’s peace treaty with Egypt at risk.
This was not inevitable, and cooler heads could have prevailed. Mr.
Jabari’s assassination removes one of the more practical actors on the
Hamas side. "
