Wait for it How loudly will Liberals scream? SodaStream move from "West Bank" Will leave Palestinians without a job

 

Be careful for what you wish.

The BDS*ers wanted SodaStream to be blackballed for having an operation in Occupied Israel, a/k/a the west bank of the Jordan River.

Never mind that SodaStream employed both Israeli Jews and PA Muslims in equal numbers; no matter that SodaStream offered equal pay for equal work.

The BDSers wanted to punish SodaStream for daring to have an operation in Occupied Israel.

So now SodaStream is pulling out and moving to the south.

The BDSers won, but did their clients, the Muslims of the PA who soon will be unemployed?

According to an article in the Times of Israel, Ramah Kudaimi, membership and outreach coordinator for the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, which represents 400 organizations said today’s news is just the latest sign that these global BDS campaigns are having an impact on changing the behavior of companies that profit from Israeli occupation and apartheid.

Apartheid? Working together for equal pay is apartheid? I think Mr. Kudaimi need to revisit a dictionary. **

The article continues: But Kudaimi’s group, as well as the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee, say they will continue to boycott SodaStream because they claim its new factory abets dispossession of Bedouin land in Israel, even though the factory will be in an existing industrial park.

Instead of PA employees, SodaStream will have to hire Bedu for diversity, assuming they want to work in a factory rather than remain on the land.

Israel is at once trying to increase the Jewish population in the south and to wean the Bedu from their nomadic lifestyle. Like the Roma of Europe, this may be easier said than done, and in the end, if they Bedu don't violate Israeli law, they probably will be able to keep their old ways.

One thing is clear: no matter is Israel were to withdraw completely from its land - as it did in Gaza - the liberal, anti-Israel voices would not be stilled. It's not where Jews live, its THAT Jews live - period.

The leadership of the PA - with or without Hamas - make it abundantly clear with their frequent calls to wipe Israel off the map and all the Jews with it.

And Israel's supposed to make peace with these people? Only in Obama's dreams.

 

* BDS = Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions

** Apartheid, according to Merriam-Webster online is defined as:
racial segregation; segregation or separation
SodaStream does NOT qualify as an apartheid organization.

Make peace with Haniyeh and Mazin?

 

Obama & Kerry should read “Palestinian” press

The following article is from the Ma’an News Agency that, according to its own (English language) “About” page is part of the Ma’an Network, the largest independent TV, radio and online media group in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It also broadcasts regionally via the Ma’an-Mix satellite channel. It publishes news around the clock in Arabic and English, and is among the most browsed websites in the Palestinian territories, with over 3 million visits per month. Considered the main source of independent news from Palestine, MNA has become the first choice for online information for many Palestinians, and is also attracting a growing international readership and interest from prominent international news organizations and agencies.” (http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewContent.aspx?PAGE=AboutUs)

Ma’an also offers news in Hebrew. In English or Hebrew, it deserves an occasional visit; today I saw a photo of “Israel soldiers force Muslim to drink wine at gunpoint” (http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=604267) Ma’an’s main office is in Bet Lekhem (Bethlehem) with a “sub office” in Aza (Gaza) City.

Based on the fact that Ma’an, despite its claim of independence, is the mouthpiece of those who control “Palestine,” the reporting of Aza Prime Minister Haniyeh’s speeches can be trusted to be accurate, even in translation.

Haniyeh: No future for Israel on the land of Palestine

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=603354

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh on Sunday said that Israel has no future on Palestinian land, a Ma'an reporter said.

The Gaza premier made the comments while addressing a summer camp launched by Hamas to commemorate the right of return for Palestinian refugees.

"This key tells the story of a people who have been displaced from their land and subjected to the greatest international piracy at the hands of Zionist gangs," Haniyeh told spectators.

"This key narrates the story of Palestinian steadfastness, the determination to return back to their homes, and a heritage which will not go away."

Thousands of people gathered outside the al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City to listen to the speech. Haniyeh said that some 100,000 school students will participate in the summer camps.

A 'Miles of Smiles' aid convoy, including solidarity activists from Jordan, Libya, Bahrain and Egypt, were present at the ceremony.

And the Jewish perspective from “The Israel Project” (http://tinyurl.com/8yedr2b)

Speaking Sunday at a youth summer camp in the Gaza Strip, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh proclaimed to the crowd that Israel would be destroyed to make way for a Palestinian state. Arab media sources summed up his speech (see Ma’an article above) with the headline ‘Haniyeh: No future for Israel on the land of Palestine.’ It took place at a summer camp specifically dedicated to commemorating what Palestinians call their right of return, a diplomatic euphemism describing a scenario under which millions of Palestinian refugees – many of whom are radicalized and most of whom neighboring Arab countries have refused to settle for decades – would enter Israel. Hamas uses its summer camps to indoctrinate and train child soldiers (see http://tinyurl.com/ms4zdlm), which are then deployed against Israel in combat situations. The dynamic, under which Hamas conducts incitement in the context of providing children with paramilitary training, has confounded many human rights organizations that attempt to assess combat situations between Israel and the Iran-backed terror group. Such organization have been criticized for inflating Palestinian civilian deaths by calculating all teenage male combatants as civilian deaths, despite Hamas’s open training of teenagers for combat and the group’s boasts that it uses children as jihadists.

Even if the Arabists in the Beltway discount the “Jewish perspective” (ibid.) how can they ignore the words of Ismail Haniyeh quoted in his own media?

Anyone who thinks the Islamists want anything other than to destroy Israel is living in a world of make believe.

In Yesha (Judea and Samaria), the so-called “West Bank,” terrorist Abu Mazin, who presides as president of the “Palestinian Authority,” consistently says he is willing to talk to Israel on condition that. Every time Israel meets Mazin’s conditions, he adds another. Mazin, by the way, is considered by Obama as a “true partner” with Israel in negotiating away Israeli lands and security (http://tinyurl.com/lutnxoy).

Are Obama and Kerry really that blind to reality?
Sorry, rhetorical question.

Sworn enemies seek care in Israel

I wonder why a resident of Aza (Gaza) has to travel all the way to Haifa for medical treatment.

Why does a resident of the so-called Palestinian Authority area of occupied Israel, have to travel to Jerusalem for medical care?

According to http://www.distance24.org, the distance between Gaza City and Haifa is nearly 100 miles. Gaza City to Cairo is roughly 220 miles, Gaza is not attacking Egypt as it attacks Israel. On the other hand, Jordan’s capital of Amman is only 93 miles.

All mileage figures are “as the crow flies.”

Palestine Airways Limited has one flight a day on odd-numbered days to Amman, with a return flight to Gaza International Airport (GZA) on even-numbered days. A similar arrangement is advertised for Gaza International to Cairo International. (See http://www.gazaairport.com/tic.html# .) There are no flights to Haifa or even Lod (although there are flights from Cairo and Amman to Lod.) There apparently are no airports of any size in what is incorrectly called the “West Bank” (a term left over from Jordan’s occupation following its invasion of Israel in 1948.

Even without air transportation, “Palestinians” can go to hospitals in Jordan. Syria, for the moment, is not an option.

A recent decision by the PA is to discourage its citizens from seeking medical treatment in Israel since the PA is supposed to pay for its citizen’s care.

IN SYRIA injured fighters are brought to IDF frontline medical facilities (think “MASH”); those who require greater treatment are sent to Haifa or Jerusalem. Neither the incumbent Syrian government nor the potential future Syrian government pays for Syrian care.

What the Syrians SHOULD be doing, since Israel is the enemy, is sending the wounded to Jordanian military hospitals; let Jordanian medics deal with them. Jordan can bill the fighters’ sponsors for their care. (Can anyone see Israel sending a bill to Iran? Not hardly.)

OK. People say “Well, if the Israelis provide top notch medical care these people whose primary goal in life is to wipe out Israel and all non-Muslims in it – that includes Christians, don’t forget – that these people will have a change of heart.

It doesn’t work that way. At least one woman whose life Israeli medics saved returned with a bomb to kill those same medics. Muslim mentality. Exception or rule?

Israeli Jews and Israeli Muslims can, and do co-exist – peacefully. Even with rockets falling on Haifa, a Muslim family – with the grandmother in traditional Arab garb – walked along a beach heavily populated with Israeli Jews. No one assaulted them, no one told them to “go back where you came from,” and no one called them names . . . even as rockets fired by Muslim rocketeers rained down on the city.

The difference is that the Muslims from Aza and the Muslims from the so-called West Bank are enemies of Israel and should NOT be treated in Israel facilities. Likewise the Syrians who will, once control is restored, will take up arms against Israel.

If a person lives in Aza, there is no excuse for that person to go to an Israeli hospital; there are other options available, including the Arab capitals of Amman and Cairo.