Now where did I put that Mecca Compass?
Posted on 01/03/2015 4:04:40 PM PST by Lorianne
One of the most controversial aspects of Israel's policy on Gaza is economic: A blockade of the Palestinian territory began in 2007 after Hamas gained control of the region. Most experts agree that it has had a dramatic effect on life in the region (over the summer, the Economist said the siege had made Gaza "the world's biggest open-air prison") yet many also argue that it has failed to achieve its aims of weakening Hamas.
In this light, the impending opening of a Coca-Cola factory in Gaza seems important. Reuters reports that Palestinians – with Israeli approval – began importing machinery for the factory on Monday. The plant is expected to open in 2015 and will provide hundreds of jobs for Palestinians, Emad al-Hindi, director-general of the Palestinian National Beverage Company, told the news service.
There are already three Coca-Cola franchises in the West Bank, and a Pepsi factory in Gaza, but this marks the first time Coca-Cola has appeared in the region. “We’ve been shipping to Gaza on a regular basis with the approval of the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli authorities,” Zahi Khouri, chairman of the Palestinian National Beverage Company told the Jerusalem Post in November. “It made commercial sense to have a plant [in Gaza] so we could sell the product at a much a lower cost.”
It was no easy task: The company needed approval from the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli Defense Forces, Khouri told the Jerusalem Post. The company pays taxes only to the West Bank-based PA rather than the Hamas-controlled Gaza government, in part to get around terror financing laws.
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Load the product with generous doses of Xanax. Please.
U.S. fatcorps have no, zip allegiance to anyone, or any country and certainly not the U.S. homeland.
Similar to what biggov has become.
“As American as...”
well one version used to be Coca-Cola..
LOLOLOL!!!
Time to start an office pool on how long they’ll last there.
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Xanax, with a boost of Saltpeter, and just a spritz of Arsenic. Try it Shaken, Not Stirred.
ha ha! that’s funny, thanks for that!
(actually, CocaCola is a very widely=held security. The largest single ownership interest happens to be a recognizable outfit, Berkshire Hathaway ... that’s Warren Buffet’s investment tool. (Buffet was raised a Presbyterian although he has characterized himself as an ‘agnostic’ — either way, he’s not Jewish.)
world largest open air prison? Isn’t that North Korea/Cuba. Ppl aren’t allowed out of those countries, but anyone could leave Israel. The restriction is only for entering.
Their new motto: “Thing go worse with Coke!”
Really, they can’t keep a successful greenhouse system running after they took it from the Jews, and they’re going to operate a bottling plant?
Nonsense.
The stuff made there will probably at least have sugar instead of that syrup.
Nothing better than an ice cold coke after spending the day sawing off heads....
> Really, they can’t keep a successful greenhouse system
> running after they took it from the Jews,
LOL!!
It was much worse than that.
The stupid, spiteful paleo savages deliberately destroyed the greenhouse system, because, after all, it was built by the haram JOOOOOOOOZ.
And then they tried to rebuild them and get plants going again. Didn’t work for them so they asked the Jews for help. The Jews told them to eff off. You broke it, you fix it.
The last thing they need is more sugar.
When you think about it, it's a bad idea. Because the plant requires water and electricity, both are problematic in Gaza. Far better to make it in the West Bank and truck the finished product into Gaza. A better product to be made would be pork. Pigs can live in squalor and eat any garbage, and their byproducts are good fertilizer. Let's ship them a bunch and see who squeals loudest.
xanax? Load it to bursting with female hormones
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