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Video: Ethical Issues in Israel's Gaza Operation
(Jerusalem Center) Prof. Asa Kasher - Asa Kasher, author of the IDF Code of Ethics, is Professor of Professional Ethics and Philosophy of Practice and Professor of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University. In 2000 he was awarded the Israel Prize for his work in philosophy and ethics. Prof. Kasher spoke on Nov. 26 at the Jerusalem Center: The Gaza operation "did not start after the first Kassam hit. It started 8 years later. Why did we wait eight years? The simple answer is because we tried all kinds of other methods to solve that problem. Both military methods and political methods, including a tahdiya (cease-fire). And they all failed. So when everything fails, you are left with just one method: the use of military force."