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.
I am interested in this argument-- though I do think that anti-port advocates are being racist and nativist.
Do you have evidence that the Dubai coporation would enforce such a ban at a US port? Your article seems to suggest that they conform to local laws in Arab ports. Such laws are stupid and anti-semitic but I am not sure the Dubai corporation can change those laws.
Not another Baldwin brother...
So, how do I know that? Well, he used the expression "is seeking control over six major US ports" in his article. Since that's not really what is going on, that identifies his piece as essentially propaganda, and leftwing propaganda at that.
These guys want to brew up a rift between the USA and UAE such that we have to withdraw our forces from there. Inasmuch as UAE is our major marshalling yard to support all of our forces, including two fleets, in the Middle East, that would be an unmitigated disaster for the United States.
In short, this is just more enemy talk.
When is "W" going to show some cojones and toss these people in the clink for the duration just like Woodrow Wilson?
(((( Ping ))))
What I want to know is when are we going to take back the Chinese run ports?
Didn't an official of the Chinese government say they were going to destroy us a few months ago? Is it a good idea to allow a country that makes threats against us to control ports at our border?
What so funny about this is there is a thread where The Church of England is making moves to divest from Israel. Shall we boycott the UK. How about all this liberal mainline Protestant churches that are making political points by trying to Divest. No Espicoplains running our ports there anti Israel!!! This is getting to be ludriocus.
I am very pro Israel but the key is to bring the UAE into the World more. Hatred and prejudices will fade and progress will be made. The Israeli card is being used in desperation.
Trash talk from a scum bag?
And I can't figure out why this isn't pushed to Bloggers and Personal...it is just another poorly written, vitriolic vanity.
Well I see the Port Deal Hysterics are still lying about the deal. Wonder if for 30 seconds they can shut their hysteric ignorant aggressively dumb mouths and LEARN something.
US Local Government Port Authorities run our ports. Out of 300 terminals in 6 ports Dubai Ports signed an agreement to buy the company that holds leases on 9 of those terminals. It is no different then an airline running gates at an Airport. They do not "Control" the Airports. That is just more stupid PR being spewed by the Democrat Senate Election Committee. IF you would put your rabid racist paranoia on hold and actually bother to READ and LISTEN to Rush, you would know these facts. Unfortunately it seems you would rather cling to your hate based bigotry and scream your ignorance here night after night.
Those who don't oppose the "port deal" are not "flunkies for Bush".
I have been all over him on the immigration issue.
This port deal needs to be decided on facts. I've noted that those that oppose it have been overlooking many of them.
Who the hell is Brian Baldwin, and why should anyone give a rat's ass what he thinks?
And I got banned for two days once for posting the daily Rush thread in the wrong place! Guess it all depends who is Moderating.
LOL!
Most Jews vote democratic. That's why some republicans believe it safe to support the muslims...The Jews aren't going to vote for them anyway. Add to that there are more muslims in America than Jews...you have a recipe for monetary and political gain by supporting muslims.
Also maybe it me but isnt there a benefit we get the closer we get to this company. Like more interation more security. Perhaps having more observors in the other ports they own. I really dont think this company is going anywhere but up from what I have seen and no anti islamic hysteria is going to stop those world wide market forces.
I am interested in this argument-- though I do think that anti-port advocates are being racist and nativist.
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Anyone who disagrees with you about anything is probably being racist.
Do you think the average American Muslim cares 2 cents about this shipping company. They might now because its been made into you cant trust muslim issue. But seriously are Muslims seating at home deciding their votes because the UAE or any other Muslim country gets a shipping contract?
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