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Shop at the airport Duty Free? You may be supporting Israeli settlements in Palestine
Santa Cruz Sentinel ^ | July 1, 2019 | URI BLAU and JOSEF FEDERMAN

Posted on 07/01/2019 4:23:48 PM PDT by artichokegrower

When travelers shop at dozens of duty free stores at airports worldwide, they may be paying for more than a bottle of vodka or a box of chocolates.

The Falic family of Florida, owners of the ubiquitous chain of Duty Free Americas shops, funds a generous and sometimes controversial philanthropic empire in Israel that runs through the corridors of power and stretches deep into the occupied West Bank.

(Excerpt) Read more at santacruzsentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Israel; US: Florida; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; florida; israel; jerusalem; letshavejerusalem; palestinians; rop; sabrahummus; settlements; soundsperfect; waronterror
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According to the AP analysis, the Falics donated roughly $600,000 to “Hachnasat Orchim Hebron,” a group that hosts visitors to the Jewish community and provides snacks to Israeli soldiers protecting the settlers.


I have not shopped at these establishments before but will make a point to do so from now on.

1 posted on 07/01/2019 4:23:48 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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“Shop at the airport Duty Free? You may be supporting Israeli settlements in Palestine”

Like that’s a bad thing.


2 posted on 07/01/2019 4:24:52 PM PDT by Redcitizen (Tagline not secure.)
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To: artichokegrower

Question: What is Palestine?


3 posted on 07/01/2019 4:25:12 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: artichokegrower

Nothing like drumming up business for the people you hate, eh Skippy?


4 posted on 07/01/2019 4:25:44 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
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To: Redcitizen

Obviously someone is trying to destroy the Duty Free franchise. I guess the moral of this story is donate anonymously, if you don’t want to be outed for your political beliefs.


5 posted on 07/01/2019 4:26:35 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell..)
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To: artichokegrower

I had a couple of hours to blow in Atlanta’s airport a few days ago. I wish I knew this then. Well, at least for future purchases.


6 posted on 07/01/2019 4:26:59 PM PDT by coon2000 (Give me Liberty or give me death)
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I’ll make a point from now on TO SHOP for Christmas presents in those places.
(The nicest clock that I’ve ever owned came from a “duty free shop” in DK.)

Yours, TMN78247


7 posted on 07/01/2019 4:28:10 PM PDT by TMN78247 ("VICTORY or DEATH", William Barrett Travis, LtCol, comdt., Fortress of the Alamo, Bejar, 1836)
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Yeah I was never an Israel activist.

I figured they took care of themselves more than enough and could handle themselves more than enough.

But the past few years, though I didn’t think it was possible, the msm and powers that be have gotten even MORE RABID against Israel.

That makes me very mad.

I have NO IDEA what Israel makes, but if it is something I use I will buy at least one thing that is made there.


8 posted on 07/01/2019 4:29:31 PM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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To: artichokegrower

Stealth anti-semitism, but what do expect out of Santa Cruz?


9 posted on 07/01/2019 4:30:53 PM PDT by Fungi
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Me Too!! I am now shopping there EVERY CHANCE I GET!!


10 posted on 07/01/2019 4:31:06 PM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: artichokegrower

At last I hear something that justifies the high prices in airports.


11 posted on 07/01/2019 4:31:22 PM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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All the more reason.

Now, if I just understood what “duty free” means?


12 posted on 07/01/2019 4:34:19 PM PDT by Jemian (Walls work and Walls Save Lives.)
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So, what do these liberals want people to do? Smash the shop windows?

Oh, that's been done.

13 posted on 07/01/2019 4:35:54 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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“Now, if I just understood what “duty free” means?”

no kidding. the prices in the places always looked so outrageous to me I just figured it was a scam for the unwary ....


14 posted on 07/01/2019 4:36:04 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: artichokegrower

Well, I was trying to swear off flying . . . .

But this may be a plus if I have to . . .


15 posted on 07/01/2019 4:36:38 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (x)
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To: SkyDancer

It’s a fake country where fake people come from who are fond of airing their fake grievances by being really violent.

CC


16 posted on 07/01/2019 4:41:14 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV)
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“I have not shopped at these establishments before but will make a point to do so from now on. “

Always thought the same, that they were a gimmick. But now we know shopping there will MAKE A STATEMENT against Antisemitism, so count me in too!


17 posted on 07/01/2019 4:44:23 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: artichokegrower

Excellent!
Wonderful news!


18 posted on 07/01/2019 4:44:35 PM PDT by onyx
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I sure hope to support those evil Joooos living in their so-called “settlements” (where did the Nazis come up with that word from, ha!)....on their own Promised Land in Israel

indeed, I try to provide them as much support as humanly possible

whoever is writing for the “Santa Cruz Sentinel” needs to be fired for this IslamoNazi propaganda krap, now.

Santa Cruz has a campus of the U of Cal, including Angela Davis on the taxpayer’s payroll, and the town has become a collection channel for many of the farthest leftist kinds you don’t want to hear about.

The newspaper is not your small town press. It is, rather, owned by Digital First Media (San Jose Mercury News...a far far leftist rag, Boston Herald, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Orange County Register which has under this ownership become pretty far left of its former self, etc..) and is controlled by Alden Group Capital, a hedge fund run by Randall D. Smith...a real estate tycoon of sorts and owner of a number of homes in Florida through overseas front companies commonly used to avoid USA taxes we understand)

we usually don’t buy much at airports but will look for any of these shops we can, now....
friends and associates have told us for years that they can have some good buys on some good merchandise


19 posted on 07/01/2019 4:45:08 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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Shop at Amazon.com? You may be supporting the American Communist Party's plan to subjugate the nation.
20 posted on 07/01/2019 4:46:58 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (A joke: Comey,Brennan and Lynch walk into a Barr...)
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