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Posted on 03/06/2015 9:30:39 PM PST by nickcarraway
They’re just hurting themselves, but one has to feel for them – nothing else they've tried has worked. Pity they never tried to build a functioning economy
The Palestinian boycott of Israeli food makers began last week, with roughly equal amounts of brutality and confusion. Yet for all the bravado its organizers broadcast, there was a much bigger element of despair.
The brutality was expressed in the bands of Fatah activists marching into groceries and checking shelves to see whether packages of Bamba peanut-flavored snacks or Tnuva milk were still on display, and issuing thinly veiled threats to reluctant store owners who failed to remove them quickly.
“We will visit businesses and explain to their owners that they are partners in our goal to boycott Israeli products," Halil Falanh, a member of the boycott committee in the Ramallah district, was quoted in Ynet as saying. He promised he would use undefined “pleasant” methods to enforce the boycott, although some of his colleagues threatened to confiscate goods.
In any case, the enforcers' strategy of educating merchants about their national duty by forcing their way into shops was itself intimidating, even if it fell short of violence.
The confusion was even more evident. The boycott enforcers talked about banning six companies, when in fact two of them (Strauss and Elite) are the same company. Nor is it clear why other big Israeli companies like Unilever Israel or Central Bottling (Coca-Cola Israel) were exempt. The deadline for complying seemed a little hazy and mechanisms for enforcing it awkward and too patently easy to evade. The whole thing came off as, a show of face designed for media consumption.
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
That’s the idea. If the Palestinians living in Israel get ahead, the left can’t use the “plight of the Palestinians” to feed their anti-Semitism.
When Israel vacated the Gaza Strip, they left behind a fully functioning greenhouse operation (I think it was 15 acres or so but don’t quote me on that) that would send two planeloads of fresh fruits and vegetables to European markets twice a week. When the “Palestinians” took over the Gaza, they ransacked the greenhouse operation and destroyed it. Now the new “owners”’ have been begging for help to restart the operation.
All the “Palestinians” understand is hatred for Israel so nothing will change until they give up their worthless religion that mandates hatred against the Jews. As Golda Meier once said: “there will never be peace so long as the Arabs hate the Jews more than they love their own children.”
As I have said before, the problem with the Middle East can be said in one word: Islam. Unless that changes, and it never will, there will never be peace in the Middle East. We have been running in circles and it will never stop.
Let some of these liberals under doctor’s care boycott Israeli drug manufacturers too. Then we’ll se what they’re really made of.
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Irony is so ironic.
Here is link to a story on it by the AP: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/yes-palestinian-culture-is-a-problem/article/2503596
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