Giffords’ Courage & Principle
This woman is so courageous, principled & inspiring. I hope she will come back and help lead our nation.
Friends who’d hug Israel to death
I’ve been engaged in a debate with my cousin from Mexico, who loves how GOP candidates fight over who is a better friend of Israel and who was insisting that they were superior friends of Israel over the current US Administration.
I had tried to explain the following:
That is because you don’t see how Gingrich’s and Romney’s pandering to us (American Jews) ends up hurting the US and Israel. For one, Arabs then feel the US will not be balanced and they stop trusting the US and don’t want anything to do with it. A weak US is bad for Israel. Gingrich denying the Palestinians’ identity is harmful to Israel. For Israel’s sake, it needs to separate from the Palestinians and have them have their State and Israel its State. If Gingrich insists there are no Palestinians, where are all the Arabs living in the West Bank going to go? They are not going anywhere. If Israel annexes that land along with millions of Palestinians, not only will we have a demographic challenge where Palestinians will eventually make up the majority, but also we’ll end up with a balkanized divided country as a permanent condition, as in Lebanon.
Shimon Peres once said something very wise to a group of us: when you negotiate, you need to be careful not to weaken your counterpart on the other side so much that they can’t then do their job. We have a Palestinian government willing to achieve a lasting two state solution. If we keep undermining Fayyad and Abbas, we’ll end up with Hamas alone. Not a good idea.
Even Elliot Abrams, one of the most right wing pro-Israel supporters EVER, mocked Gingrich’s position.
And Romney is just a panderer who will just say what he thinks the particular audience wants to hear. He has no moral compass.
Israel is not well-served by people trying to say they are our friends and making extremist pronouncements.
An analogy is how Iran always says they are friends of the Palestinians and they try to hijack the Palestinian cause, with their extremist positions. They are not helping the Palestinian people, and the moderate Palestinians eventually start calling them on it. But in national conflicts, it is very hard for moderates to call the extremists out, for fear of not appearing as nationalistic. That is why when foreigners try to appear as friends of either side with extremist positions, they harm the process.
I don’t think I was sufficiently persuasive.
Tom Friedman fortunately came to the rescue with this column, which quite painfully highlights the challenges Israel is facing from within and from outside, from extremist ideologues and pandering politicians who’d sell out Israeli democracy and freedom for political or extremist ideological purposes.
Netanyahu’s dictatorial governance is jeopardizing Israel
KIND in the WSJ!
Check out this great article in the Wall Street Journal’s “How I Built It” column about how Daniel’s healthy craving and hard work gave birth to KIND!
by Adeena Schlussel
What Israel should do amidst the changing Arab currents
While Thomas Friedman agrees with Israeli PM Netanyahu’s fears about Israel’s state of security, he disagrees with Netanyahu’s approach to these dangers. In this article, Friedman questions Netanyahu’s approach to do nothing instead of strengthening responsible Palestinian leaders.
Spotted by Daniel Lubetzky, by Adeena Schlussel
Invitation to roundtable discussion with Daniel for tomorrow night
Tomorrow night, December 6th at 6:30pm, Daniel will be participating in a roundtable discussion with Intersections International. This night promises to be an interesting one so please rsvp using the information below if interested!
By Adeena Schlussel
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VALUES AND LEADERSHIP ROUNDTABLE Presents A CONVERSATION WITH DANIEL LUBETZKY Tuesday, December 6, 2011 A social entrepreneur known for integrating social objectives with sustainable market-driven forces into new business models. He is the CEO and Founder of KIND Healthy Snacks and the KIND Movement. He is also founder of PeaceWorks Inc., and the PeaceWorks Foundation’s OneVoice Movement, and co-founder of Maiyet. RSVP: rsvp@intersectionsinternational.org More information: Sam Simon |
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How Howard Schultz’s leadership caught the president’s attention
Howard Schultz’s campaign to divest from all political campaigns as a sign of disgust for Washington’s political feuds, has caught President Obama’s attention. President Obama recently called the Starbucks CEO to discuss the campaign, and while Schultz emphasized that his campaign is not directed against the President, it is clear that his rally has made an impression on our nation’s leaders.
This article takes a look at that story, as well as others that demonstrate Schultz’s renowned leadership and personality traits.
Spotted by Daniel Lubetzky, by Adeena Schlussel
Keeping the right employees
This Business Week article highlights the importance of surrounding yourself with a great team. When someone is not striving for excellence and exhibits certain detrimental traits, it is important to revisit if you want them to continue partnering with them:
Harriet Green: A most influential woman
Harriet Green, OneVoice board member and an old friend, was just ranked in the top 50 women in world business in 2011. She is the highest ranking business woman of the UK and that is not for lack of good company!
To see more about this honor, see here!
How Starbucks is Caffeinating our Economy
I am a big fan of Starbucks’s Create Jobs for USA campaign and it is incredibly admirable to see business leaders take a stand for the state of our country. For every purchase of the $5 Indivisible wristband, Starbucks will donate $35 to Opportunity Finance Network, an organization that doles out grants to Community Development Financial Institutions. These organizations in turn forward money to small businesses, microenterprises, nonprofits and other community focused institutions, in hopes of- you guessed it- creating jobs.
We have never been more proud to be one of Starbucks and Howard Schultz’s partners.
Spotted by Daniel Lubetzky, by Adeena Schlussel
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