Germany and the Shalit Negotiations: Helping Israel or Helping Hamas?

There has been much talk lately of Germany negotiating a deal for the release of the Israeli Corporal Gilad Shalit. The accent in the English-language reports has been placed on the “help” being provided by Germany to the Israelis. But a headline in the August 27 edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) offers a different perspective. “Hamas is Counting on the Germans,” it reads...

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