On March 30, the pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel loons will be coming out of the woodwork again urging you not to buy Israeli products. My pals at Stand With Us are promoting a counter-attack urging customers to make it a point to buy Israeli products. It has worked beautifully in previous years, and we can make it work again. Remember the Trader Joe's protest? That's when I made a point to walk into the place and pick up some Israeli cous-cous along with my usual wine purchases. (It was pretty good too.)
http://www.standwithus.com/app/iNews/view_n.asp?ID=1787
Keep in mind that these folks are the usual far-left misfits, Code Pink, International Solidarity Movement, Free Gaza and all those other anarchists with too much time on their hands.
When you see these professional protestors, make it a point to show them your Israeli products as you exit the store.
PS: Hat tip to Findalis for this link to Buycott Israel.
http://www.zionism-israel.com/ezine/Buycott-Israel.html
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a couple of years ago I was in a mall in Houston and was roped into buying some skin care products from Israel. The stuff was supposedly made right there by the Dead Sea. The fact that the sales women were some kind of beautiful had no bearing in making a choice to buy. I think it would be interesting to compile a list of products of Israel and make a point of purchasing some.
Spread the word, cabbie. That's how the Trader Joe boycott was defeated. Israeli products were flying off the shelves.
I also bought Israeli stuff at Trader Joe's then and found the clip of the BIG symbol to use as my identifier on my emails. I received the following email regarding the Muslim boycott of Jewish products:
Subject: Iran's Supreme Leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged the Muslim World to boycott anything and everything that originates with the Jewish people.
In response, Meyer M. Treinkman, a pharmacist, out of the kindness of his heart, offered to assist them in their boycott as follows:
"Any Muslim who has Syphilis must not be cured by Salvarsan discovered by a Jew, Dr. Ehrlich. He should not even try to find out whether he has Syphilis, because the Wasserman Test is the discovery of a Jew. If a Muslim suspects that he has Gonorrhea, he must not seek diagnosis, because he will be using the method of a Jew named Neissner.
"A Muslim who has heart disease must not use Digitalis, a discovery by a Jew, Ludwig Traube. Should he suffer with a toothache, he must not use Cocaine, a discovery of the Jews, Widal and Weil. If a Muslim has Diabetes, he must not use Insulin, the result of research by Minkowsky, a Jew. If one has a headache, he must shun Pyramidon and Antypyrin, due to the Jews, Spiro and Ellege. Muslims with convulsions must put up with them because it was a Jew, Oscar Leibreich, who proposed the use of Chloral Hydrate. Arabs must do likewise with their psychic ailments because Freud, father of psychoanalysis, was a Jew. Should a Muslim child get Diphtheria, he must refrain from the "Schick" reaction which was invented by the Jew, Bella Schick.
"Muslims should be ready to die in great numbers and must not permit treatment of ear and brain damage, work of Nobel Prize winner, Robert Baram. They should continue to die or remain crippled by Infantile Paralysis because the discoverer of the anti-polio vaccine is a Jew, Jonas Salk.
"Muslims must refuse to use Streptomycin and continue to die of Tuberculosis because a Jew, Zalman Waxman, invented the wonder drug against this killing disease. Muslim doctors must discard all discoveries and improvements by dermatologist Judas Sehn Benedict, or the lung specialist, Frawnkel, and of many other world renowned Jewish scientists and medical experts.
"In short, good and loyal Muslims properly and fittingly should remain afflicted with Syphilis, Gonorrhea, Heart Disease, Headaches, Typhus, Diabetes, Mental Disorders, Polio, Convulsions and Tuberculosis and be proud to obey the Islamic boycott."
"Buy for Israel. Buy for Peace."
Kind of hard to believe a group whose logo of Israel includes the West Bank and Gaza Strip is really interested in peace and understanding.
Stand With Us sure ain't fooling this goy.
Dead Sea Essentials by Ahava is a cosmetic brand that a few American stores carry.
The problem is that the products are not make in Israel proper, but in a West Bank settlement named "Mitzpe Shalem".
If subsidizing theft is something that appeals to you, then by all means by Israeli Mr. Cabbie.
You should be able to get a list here.
BUYCOTT ISRAEL!
Anonymous,
If I am not mistaken the workers in that plant are Palestinian. Thus, if the compnay goes broke, guess who loses jobs. Palestinians.
Dope!
I think you might be mistaken Mr. Fouse.
Many Palestinians do work in construction and mainly non-skilled jobs in Israel, however Palestinians don't work in settlements.
Marc,
Of course I could be mistaken.
Personally, I think a lot of the BDS movement is an excuse to provide a platform to those who want to demonize Israel. I don’t think they are really serious about getting it passed a lot of the time.
If BDS is targeted to Israel proper it will not help the peace process. If it became widespread, the average Israeli who supports the two state solution will feel threatened and feel the world rejects Israel. He will likely then support a leader that is tough on defense and who promotes security and feel less comfortable with negotiations that will ultimately needed to be done for the two state solution.
If the BDS targeted only West Bank and Golan products and clearly stated what they intended to accoplish with the BDS movement*, it would be a much better strategy for those who want a two state solution. But I doubt that will be the strategy by those who often campaign for BDS.
*Lots of rumors that many in the BDS movement either support the one state solution or will not accept anything less than full right of return of all refugees and their offspring and their offspring, which would destroy Israel and create two Palestinian states.
There is a reason that Palestinians no longer work on settlements or for the most part in Israel. It is the same reason as to why there are checkpoints. Too many Palestinians are prone to blowing themselves up in order to kill innocent Israelis. Seems like a prudent policy to me.
Insofar as the "subsidizing theft" remark is concerned, it presumes that someone stole something from someone who legally owned it. When the Israelis conquered the West Bank in 1967 it was administered by Jordon who did not have legal sovereignty over that land either. There is a difference between individuals owning a piece of property and sovereignty over the land. The Israelis have as much if not more claim to sovereignty over that land as anyone. In Israel, anyone who individually owned property has a right to keep and live on the property or is compensated by the government just as it is in the US if you happen to live in the path of a freeway and they need your property. In Israel, that wasn't the typical Arab case, they lived on land owned by absentee Ottoman empire owners or the land was "free" or not owned by anyone.
Simply living on land does not give you any property rights. My daughter has no property rights to her room. She lives there but he does not own it and certainly has no sovereignty over it.
The difference is Arabs and Muslims can live and own property in Israel but Jews cannot live or own property in any surrounding Arab country. Big difference and a big problem.
For the truth of the matter, read the article by Joseph Farah, an American Arab, at http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31194
Of course you have to actually want to know the truth in order to open the link and see what he says. I doubt that Anonymous will actually do that.
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That is right anon. Dead Sea Essentials is the product. Did not know it was made in the West Bank. Makes no difference to me. The only theft involved that day was that I way overpaid for the items. The sales women "double teamed" me. Should have seen them. Sorry if that bothers your silly ass.
Thanks for the link Findalis.
So what is the final consensus on the Dead Sea company?
Quality products. The ladies who were selling the line were from Israel. Whatever co. they worked for, they had women from Israel in all of the areas upscale malls. Doesn't bother me that the stuff may have been made by "Palestinians." They are always harping about lack of opportunity. I may not be PC, but I consider the "West Bank" to be part of Israel proper. Gaza also for that matter.
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