Supporting Palestinian builders versus destroyers, w/Kind’s Daniel Lubetzky
Masters of Scale
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🗓️ 23 October 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Can you foster peace between Palestinians and Israelis through business engagement? That’s been a priority of Daniel Lubetzky, founder of Kind Snacks, who has worked with entrepreneurs across the region for decades. Lubetzky joins Bob Safian for this special episode of Rapid Response to draw a distinction between Palestinians and Hamas, and to call for support for what he calls "builders" versus "destroyers" on both sides of the conflict.
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| 0:00.0 | The last 10 days have been very, very, very hard. |
| 0:04.0 | I've been sleeping four or five hours a day, |
| 0:07.0 | as a son of a Holocaust survivor to see people marching and saying, |
| 0:12.0 | as the Jews, I take that very personally. |
| 0:15.0 | My daughter came to me two days ago |
| 0:18.0 | and she said, daddy, |
| 0:20.0 | I understand that you're trying to help your friends in the Middle East, your Palestinian and Israeli colleagues, but you're not smiling anymore. |
| 0:28.0 | And it just made me remember that I cannot let them diminish me. |
| 0:32.6 | I'm going to choose to laugh. that I cannot let them diminish me. |
| 0:35.3 | I'm gonna choose to laugh, I'm gonna choose to live, |
| 0:36.7 | I'm gonna choose to build, |
| 0:37.8 | I'm gonna choose to build bridges, |
| 0:39.9 | and particularly now that there's so much darkness |
| 0:41.9 | I'm gonna choose to be a light and I want everybody |
| 0:44.9 | that's listening to you today to choose to be a light with me, to reach out to the other and |
| 0:49.2 | not allow the terrorists a victory. |
| 1:15.1 | Because they want to divide us. That's Daniel Lubetsky, the founder of kind snacks and a long time advocate of using business to foster peace between Israelis and Palestinians. I'm Bob Safian, former editor of Fast Company, founder of |
| 1:20.9 | the Flux Group and host of Masters of Scale Rapid Response. |
| 1:25.0 | I wanted to talk with Daniel because he has deep long-standing relationships within both |
| 1:30.0 | the Israeli and Palestinian business communities. He's been working to help |
| 1:34.7 | colleagues evacuate from danger in Gaza only to have their exit blocked by |
| 1:39.4 | Hamas. Daniel's father was a Holocaust survivor, so he sees the conflict in Israel from a distinctive |
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