Anti-Semitic Dubai Ports World Boycotts Israel

opinion | 02/28/2006 | brianbaldwin

[Brian_Baldwin]

It has been stomach-turning to listen to flunkies for Bush such as Rush Limbaugh et all call patriots who want to secure our borders “racist” for being “anti-Arab” regarding the port deal. Who’s the racist? Who the hell do you think you are - you think this is a game?

Dubai Ports World is anti-Semitic, bottom line, a bunch of Nazis, and U.S. law prohibits doing business with companies who boycott Israel . The whole story regarding Dubai ports firm enforcing Israel boycott is enough of the facts to be the end of this entire deal, dead “in the water“. You Bushies who called others “racist” for being “anit-Arab”, let me turn the coin on you - you hate Jews, isn’t?

So you want the Jews to be put in the gas-chambers, right? That is why you support the anti-Semitic Dubai Ports World, right? You flunkies who support this anti-American port deal just because you are water carriers for Bush, let me tell you - I’m going to the Jewish community, I’m going to get the message out regarding all of you who called patriots “racists” for being “anti-Arab”:

. . . is President Bush a closet anti-Semite?

. . . Bushies for Zyklon B?

Is that what it is? You’re not? Then, why do you support Nazis like Dubai Ports World, then? I think the Jewish community needs to know. And ask the questions. After all, you called other patriots “anti-Arab”. Are you anti-Jew?

I think maybe you are. Oh, you don’t like being called racist?

Well, maybe you are racist. I think the Jewish community in America needs to consider.

Just whose side you are on.

It isn’t a question. Now just watch. You like playing politics with the race card? Ok. Now just watch.

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Exclusive: Dubai ports firm enforces Israel boycott

By MICHAEL FREUND
Feb. 28, 2006 2:55 | Updated Feb. 28, 2006 16:08
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1139395502196&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
The Jerusalem Post March 1, 2006

The parent company of a Dubai-based firm at the center of a political storm in the US over the purchase of American ports participates in the Arab boycott against Israel, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

The firm, Dubai Ports World, is seeking control over six major US ports, including those in New York, Miami, Philadelphia and Baltimore. It is entirely owned by the Government of Dubai via a holding company called the Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation (PCZC), which consists of the Dubai Port Authority, the Dubai Customs Department and the Jebel Ali Free Zone Area.

"Yes, of course the boycott is still in place and is still enforced," Muhammad Rashid a-Din, a staff member of the Dubai Customs Department's Office for the Boycott of Israel, told the Post in a telephone interview.

"If a product contained even some components that were made in Israel, and you wanted to import it to Dubai, it would be a problem," he said.

A-Din noted that while the head office for the anti-Israel boycott sits in Damascus, he and his fellow staff members are paid employees of the Dubai Customs Department, which is a division of the PCZC, the same Dubai government-owned entity that runs Dubai Ports World.

Moreover, the Post found that the website for Dubai's Jebel Ali Free Zone Area, which is also part of the PCZC, advises importers that they will need to comply with the terms of the boycott.

In a section entitled "Frequently Asked Questions", the site lists six documents that are required in order to clear an item through the Dubai Customs Department. One of them, called a "Certificate of Origin," "is used by customs to confirm the country of origin and needs to be seen by the office which ensures any trade boycotts are enforced," according to the website.

A-Din of the Israel boycott office confirmed that his office examines certificates of origin as a means of verifying whether a product originated in the Jewish state.

On at least three separate occasions last year, the Post has learned, companies were fined by the US government's Office of Anti-boycott Compliance, an arm of the Commerce Department, on charges connected to boycott-related requests they had received from the Government of Dubai.

US law bars firms from complying with such requests or cooperating with attempts by Arab governments to boycott Israel.

In one instance, according to a Commerce Department press release, a New York-based exporter agreed to pay a fine for having "failed to report in a timely manner its receipts of requests from Dubai" to provide certification that its products had not been made in Israel.

The proposed handover of US ports to DP World has provoked a political storm in Washington, where Republicans and Democrats alike have expressed hostility to the plan, citing national security concerns.

In an attempt to stave off opposition, DP World agreed over the weekend to a highly unusual 45-day second federal investigation of potential security risks.

[clawrence3]

Duplicate thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1586865/posts

[bayourant]

If your saying that Moslems want to convert people to become moslems ok. Nothing wrong with that. I just dont think there is some open or secret plan for American muslims to become terrorist against the USA on some signal whatever that would be. I think we would have heard of it

[MNJohnnie]

I do not know. I have heard it said trade props up the ruling regime. I have heard it argued ideas and influence follows trade. I do know Logistics. There are several freepers like Liberty Lee who actually work in this particular industry dealing with Port Operations. The Port Deal Critics are talking out their butts. They do not have the slightest hint of a clue about how this works.

[danamco]

This port deal needs to be decided on facts. I've noted that those that oppose it have been overlooking many of them.



Just FOLLOW the money from longshoremen to all the New-Yorker critters, chucky, shilleri, peter king, etc.!!!

[fallujah-nuker]

IF you would put your rabid racist paranoia on hold and actually bother to READ and LISTEN to Rush, you would know these facts.

"I'm shocked, shocked To find racism against Moslem's here!!!"

Here are some examples: statistically, they probably will. their birthrates are twice ours Which is why God gave the Cluster Bombs only to the Christians. You DO realize the Muslim world produces NOTHING but Oil?, She will use the Muzzies as an excuse to push her Utopian socialist wet dream energy plan but she will be one of the first people to show up to protest us KILLING terrorists., The Muzzies have NOTHING to say about it. There is NO damage done their side. OK Hysteric Leftists????? Quit making excuses for the barbarians OK??? and Kill them first. (in reply to "Believe me, we'd like to be open to all views. But when it comes to views insulting to muslims, well... those people can be hazardous to your health, ya know?").

If Rush Limbaugh says to burn the Danish flag we know who will be the first in line. I'm old enough to remember when the elephant was the GOP's symbol rather than the sycophant.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

One thing missing in this argument is the business leaders of most Moslem nations are pretty sharp at making money.
I am not talking about the ones run by mullahs or insane dictators like Saddam.

A case in point, Motorola two way radios were banned in most Moslem nations but at the time they were the best.
The contracts stated Motorola radios but stated the name Motorola was to be removed. We made little glued on metal decals to cover the name.
On the manuals we had people going through them and blacking the names out. They got the best and everybody was happy.

[TBP]

Trash talk from a scum bag?

Typical Bushbot response.

[TheLion]

Those opposing this deal on the "left" are definitely trying to help the unions.

Those opposing this deal on the "right" are sounding more like Democrats lately, spewing disinformation.

[danamco]

Those opposing this deal on the "right" are sounding more like Democrats lately, spewing disinformation.




Yes, and I will continue to buy Danish goods!!!

[Fruitbat]

What I want to know is when are we going to take back the Chinese run ports?

Didn't an official of the Chinese government say they were going to destroy us a few months ago? Is it a good idea to allow a country that makes threats against us to control ports at our border?

I quite honestly have no idea when something really, really bad is gonna happen. I'm no chicken littly type by any stretch, but the sheer and utter negligence on our border issues, weak port policies that are being restated simply to support this DPW deal, as if all of a sudden the biggest security issue in the WOT just went away mystically, combined with the world bending over backwards to allow the spread of Islam, an ideology that is utterly incompatible with peaceful coexistence with other religious interests and peoples, and it just isn't looking pretty. The Dims are our enemy, and the GOP has turned into a collective of pansy-assed wussies on just about everything with personal political aspirations over what's in the best interests for our country dictating the actions of individual politicians. Something's gotta give at some point. Could be 20 years or more, could be much sooner. But things just can't go on like this for very long. The trend is not merely disturbing but on course for a very quick alteration of exactly what the United States has been. I see this country being torn apart due to language barriers and divides between the philosophies of Islam and other religions as Islam spreads within our borders. I must say however, with the Bible as the backdrop, it is probably the most interesting time in the history of humankind to be alive.

[Fruitbat]

Sorry, w/ paras now...

What I want to know is when are we going to take back the Chinese run ports?

Didn't an official of the Chinese government say they were going to destroy us a few months ago? Is it a good idea to allow a country that makes threats against us to control ports at our border?

I quite honestly have no idea when something really, really bad is gonna happen. I'm no chicken littly type by any stretch, but the sheer and utter negligence on our border issues, weak port policies that are being restated simply to support this DPW deal, as if all of a sudden the biggest security issue in the WOT just went away mystically, combined with the world bending over backwards to allow the spread of Islam, an ideology that is utterly incompatible with peaceful coexistence with other religious interests and peoples, and it just isn't looking pretty.

The Dims are our enemy, and the GOP has turned into a collective of pansy-assed wussies on just about everything with personal political aspirations over what's in the best interests for our country dictating the actions of individual politicians.

Something's gotta give at some point. Could be 20 years or more, could be much sooner. But things just can't go on like this for very long. The trend is not merely disturbing but on course for a very quick alteration of exactly what the United States has been. I see this country being torn apart due to language barriers and divides between the philosophies of Islam and other religions as Islam spreads within our borders.

I must say however, with the Bible as the backdrop, it is probably the most interesting time in the history of humankind to be alive.

[MNJohnnie]

And what if all your accusations, "what ifs" and "It is claimed" stories are LIES? Since the Port Deal Critics have been lying about the Ports, How they Operate, Who Runs them, What the Deal actually does, I see no reason to figure anything ELSE the Port Deal Critics say is true. Until the Port Deal Hysterics put some credibility, verifiable sources up, that are NOT Politicians sucking on the Long Shoreman's Unions "Contribution" list or a Talk Show host whoring for rating, I suspect everything they post is just the newest Talking Point lie sent out by Chucky Schumer and the Senate Democrat Election Committee.

Tommy Franks and Oliver North say you guys are NUTS. Who can you put up that Supports your side who is not a political whore or a Talk Radio Host?

[TheLion]

I am doing the same thing. That Havarti Cheese is awesome!

[danamco]

That Havarti Cheese is awesome!



Chased down by the help of a Carlsberg beer makes my day red and white!!!

[El Gato]

Your article seems to suggest that they conform to local laws in Arab ports. Such laws are stupid and anti-semitic but I am not sure the Dubai corporation can change those laws.

But Dubai Ports is owned by the government of the UAE, so the people "conforming" to the laws are in the end the same ones who make them.

If it truly is against US law to deal with companies which boycott Israel, then no one in the US can deal with these people. However, it's also said that the Navy buys fuel and services from them, Dubai Ports that is, so there is a bit of a conflict there.

[Stellar Dendrite]

[Kimberly GG]

"The parent company of a Dubai-based firm at the center of a political storm in the US over the purchase of American ports participates in the Arab boycott against Israel, The Jerusalem Post has learned. "

I am 100% behind Bush on the Dubai deal.

According to the actual article Brian posted (the quote I copied) this company participates in a boycott against Israel. I also heard on fox this am that our State Department determined some time ago that it is illegal to do business with anyone who is boycotting Israel.

So what happens next? Is there some way around this or, and I can just hear the left, will Bush be accused of attempting to break the Law?

[Kimberly GG]

"Seems to me the logical conclusion of this argument is that the US should not trade with any country that boycotts Israel. That simply is not practical."

As I just posted, I heard on Fox this morning that is also illegal, according to the State Department! I back Bush on this, but wonder what will happen next?

[mware]

I have been for the port deal, but this latest revelation that they boycott Israel is the dead knoll for the deal. It is illegal for us to do business with countries that boycott Israel.

[takenoprisoner]

"Those opposing this deal on the "right" are sounding more like Democrats lately, spewing disinformation."

While proponents of this deal are sounding more like Jimmy Carter and John Kerry...spewing lies and propaganda.