Posted on 02/28/2006 2:31:46 PM PST by markedmannerf
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28, 2006 (UPI) -- The parent company of Dubai Ports World, which is seeking to manage six U.S. ports, allegedly participates in the Arab boycott against Israel, says a report.
The Jerusalem Post reports it has learned Dubai Ports World is entirely owned by the Government of Dubai through the holding company Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation.
The Post said company 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 with the Dubai Customs Department's Office for the Boycott of Israel was quoted as telling 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at postchronicle.com ...
Be nice if the Port Deal hysterics would quit lying. US Ports are run by local Govt Port authorites, NOT shipping companies. As for the rest, the European Union gives money to Hamas. When do we start kicking all the Eurotrash out of our economy?
The press is complicit in the hysteria now. I'm surprised Bush's approval rating is as high as 34%, given the press never writes one postive thing about him.
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I wish I could see what the future holds in store for my country. All I can do is feel what is in store. Kinda like being blind I reckon...
So What?
They are a soverign nation. They can trade as they please.
Yes it would.
Why the hell should some Saudi dirtbag like Prince Alaweed Bin-Taleel be able to exercise a veto over critical commercial and political interests?
It's bad enough that media moguls, e.g. Rupert Murdoch, the owners of Google, Yahoo, etc. voluntarily censor broadcasts and publications in Red China-the last contemptible outfit going so far as to give the PRC junta information to round up and incarcerate dissidents, who'll probably spend the next decade rotting in some distant laogai, if they manage to survive-but the fact that we need to cosset and coddle people whose view of free speech involves cutting out the tongues of people who say the wrong thing irks me to no end.
Why the hell are we economically empowering a country where criminal syndicates, prostitution and child slavery rings, and terrorist financing are prevalent?
Why are we emboldening people who are already resident to change, and reluctant at modifying their anachronistic, retrograde values.
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This just in, head chopping followers of the child molester don't really care for jooooooos.
>I wish I could see what the future holds in store for my country<
You really don't want to know! With the disturbing strides being made against Judeo-Christian traditions )I've heard the gubmint now wants to penalize Social Security for recipients who tithe their churches!); the gay agenda spreading throughout the school system; the anti-American press and ballooning left wingers in politics, it doesn't look pretty, sit-rep.
It is time we all band together to fight these dangerous trends. If not, we will get what we deserve.
Feel free to correct my arithmetic, but isn't that number a smidge higher than the original "6" administration flacks were touting?
A mandatory 45-day review in cases where a foreign country taking over a U.S. company would trigger national security concerns.
A review that would have been bypassed if the supporters of this sham deal had had their way.
The White House appointing for a former DP World exect to head up the Maritime Administration of the DOT.
None of this raises alarm bells in your mind?
BTTT...
bttt!!
urious when the fact that out of 300 port terminals the UAE company will lease 9 of them is going to become part of the debate? Wonder if any of the Port Deal critics have any guess how many foreign airliners are flying over their head at any given time? So what is next? Nationalizing the Airline gates?
21?!!!!!!!!!!!!
When CNOOC was poised to take over Unocal-the Communist government of China attempting to seize yet another vital economic asset of the United States, with the complicity of avaricious, amoral, unpatriotic corporate powerbrokers-were you just as blase?
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