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The Gaza challenge
Gaza is different in many ways, but one lesson that should be learned from Iraq and is 100 percent relevant for Gaza is that you cannot resolve a political problem solely with military means.
Gaza is different in many ways, but one lesson that should be learned from Iraq and is 100 percent relevant for Gaza is that you cannot resolve a political problem solely with military means.
After the summer conflict in Gaza, Israeli-American peace activist Gershon Baskin has become a sort of potato merchant; he is scraping together funding to send the 5,000 tons of surplus Israeli potatoes to Gaza.
CNN’s Atika Shubert speaks to Gershon Baskin about how to take Israel Gaza peace talks to the next level.
Gershon Baskin raises $93,361 in 6 days for emergency food aid to Gaza
How can one explain the lack of an Israeli political initiative with clearly defined political goals for the postwar period?
HuffPost Live talks to Gershon Baskin, co-chairman of the Israel Palestine Creative Regional Initiatives, about what needs to be done next to move forward with peace talks.
Gershon Baskin feels that the Gaza War is a dead end and shares his ideas on how Israel can make something out of it.
Gershon Baskin joins CNN’s Jake Tapper to discuss next steps in this ongoing crisis.
Gershon Baskin thinks that you cannot resolve the problem by just throwing money at it, as it is very much an Israeli/Jewish mindset which says ‘let’s throw money at the problem and resolve it.’
I know it is hard to express compassion for those on the side of the enemy, but without doing that, we lose our humanity.