He tries to ‘identify with the human elements’ of the Hamas leaders he meets:

Boehler told CNN that his strategy, in negotiating with the Hamas representatives — Sigmund Freud theory! — is:
1. “to identify with the human elements of those people
2. and then build from there"

the leaders, that is — of an [terrorist] organization:
1. avowedly committed to destroying Israel,
2. who massacred 1,200 people in southern Israel,
3. burning people in their homes, raping and brutalizing,
4. and have vowed to do so again if given the chance

Asked by interviewer Jake Tapper what it was like for him, as a Jewish American, to sit down with “antisemitic murderers,” he allowed that when “you know what they’ve done, it’s hard not to think of it.”

But the “most productive” approach, he went on, “is to realize that every piece of a person is a human.”