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Jim Risch: “One cannot help but think that those that live in Gaza have to look across and see what is happening in the West Bank…”

On the recordMarch 15, 2011
One cannot help but think that those that live in Gaza have to look across and see what is happening in the West Bank and say, look, what they are doing is working and what we are doing is not working, how can we move more in that direction.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

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Risch reflects on the contrasting situations in Gaza and the West Bank.

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