MK Eldad: Boycott Against Countries Who Discriminate

Israel National News ^ | 15:57 Aug 22, '04 / 5 Elul 5764

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Responding to the threat by the 115 non-Aligned countries to refuse entry to "Israeli settlers" - i.e., the 450,000 Jewish residents of areas such as eastern and northern Jerusalem, Gush Etzion, Ariel, and the Golan - MK Eldad calls for a boycott.

Public figures in Israel have begun to comment on the possibility that the 115 non-aligned countries might refuse entry to "Israeli settlers" - i.e., the 450,000 Jewish residents of areas liberated in the Six Day War, such as eastern and northern Jerusalem, Gush Etzion, Ariel, and the Golan.

Among the countries are popular destinations for young Israeli hikers such as India, Thailand, Nepal, Peru and Bolivia. Foreign Ministry officials emphasized that the non-aligned nations had merely "declared" their support for such a move, but that actual implementation was still very far off.

MK Aryeh Eldad (National Union), who lives in Kfar Adumim in the Jordan Valley - an area that was liberated during the Six Day War - said that the resolution marks a "natural extension of the recent decision by Trade Minister Ehud Olmert to mark goods made in Yesha." Olmert made the decision in response to ongoing pressures by the European Union to enable it to slap extra taxes on these goods.

MK Eldad proposes that Israeli and world Jewry threaten an economic boycott on "every country that refuses to allow the half-million Jews who live in Judea, Samaria and Gaza not to enter merely because of where they live."