Posted on 02/28/2006 7:35:00 PM PST by 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.
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.
European Boycott Israeli Goods CampaignAfter a successful meeting at the European Social Forum, where a large number of people from other European Countries attended and a useful discussion was held, the BIG Campaign is going European.
Details of other campaigns will be listed here, as and when we get details. If you belong to a boycott campaign or Palestinian Solidarity Group in any other European country please contact us with your details.
Unions sure have clout.
Britain's largest trade union, Unison, is actively joined in with others calling for a boycott of all Israeli goods.
The UN has been generally nasty towards Israel
Why was the Durban UN World Conference Against Racism in 2001 anti-Israel?
UN, Israel & Anti-Semitism: Demonization of Israel: "Zionism is Racism"
An alien observing the United Nations' debates, reading its resolutions, and walking its halls could well conclude that a principal purpose of the world body is to censure a tiny country called Israel."U.N. Rights Expert Urges E.U. to Suspend Ties with Israel
It does, the old mainstream Protestant churches, lefty democrats, etc.etc.
But it's time to bash an ally of the US in the WOT, and all of that is forgotten.
I wonder if an exemption can be made for DPW. The Chinese government's shipping company, COSCO, got an exemption from a US law through the help of APCO
COSCO has been able to establish and maintain an open communication channel with the U.S. government and congressional members through the services of APCO. — Mr. Zhang Liyong, President, COSCO Americas, Inc.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1585841/posts
dpw works with zim
"When is "W" going to show some cojones and toss these people in the clink for the duration just like Woodrow Wilson?"
When is "W" going to show some cojones and demand that the UAE officially recognize the current Afghan govt instead of the old Taliban one in exchange for doing business in the USA? As a "good" partner in the War on Terror would.
It is pathetic how some have grasped at the race card to defend our Saudi-Prince-Kisser-in-Chief's dereliction on this issue.
I think you'd better check stuff out a bit more, and also do a little research into what kind of "recognition" UAE extends to other states. Some countries "recognize" everybody, all comers welcome (a situation remarkably similar to that of the United States before Wilson took us into WWI). Others are a bit more restrictive, and then there are those who demand a treaty.
UAE is really not in a position to do much more than to pay lipservice to any restrictions or demands by anybody.
"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."
welcome aboard...we got work to do so get busy...we're surrounded by terrorists and their sympathizers.
"UAE is really not in a position to do much more than to pay lipservice to any restrictions or demands by anybody."
The UAE lets us use their facilities for our fleet because they know they could be the Islamofascists next lunch without our assistance. And YES they do still recognize the old Taliban govt. We should use our leverage to end it.
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