Posted on 09/20/2015 3:06:55 AM PDT by Olog-hai
In a surprising about-face, Iceland’s capital city of Reykjavik has decided to back down on its decision made just last Wednesday to boycott all Israeli goods.
Reykjavik Mayor Dagur B. Eggertsson told the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service RUV that the decision is to be withdrawn, saying he was “angry” with himself for supporting the move. […]
The decision was to have all city agencies boycott all Israeli goods. It came under harsh criticism by Jewish groups who noted a full boycott of Israeli goods would have to include computers and cell phones.
Even Iceland’s Foreign Ministry slammed the move, saying it did not represent official policy. …
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Well good. I have been there multiple times and I was pained to have to spend my evil dollars somewhere else. Now the pressure has to be kept on to keep their lefty impulses in check. Iceland is a great place to visit, but their government is far left and Reykjavik is further left than the rest of the country.
Why would Iceland boycott Israel? What’s the story there?
Propaganda works.
A lot of people worked for centuries to get the bible translated into Icelandic:
https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/Icelandic-Bible/
Obviously it was all a waste as nobody up there reads the thing...
I couldn’t have made this mistake, but if the guy is big enough to reverse himself and word it like this, I respect it.
It is very unfortunate that so many entities buy into the idea that the Israelis are unfair to the Palestinians.
Just imagine how much they would hate Israel if Israel were doing what the Palestinians are doing against Israel.
Now time to vote out or recall these anti-Semite/anti-Zionist pigs.
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