European boycotts begin to bite, catching Israel's attention

[pbel]

Like a locomotive, boycotts slowly begin to pick up steam then becomes an unstoppable avalanche.



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For years, boycott efforts in Europe seemed to be only symbolic gestures. But several major efforts announced in the past year, including one by the EU, are raising alarm.

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Christian Science Monitor
By Christa Case Bryant, Sara Miller Llana
1 hour ago


Drive down the steep road from Jerusalem to the Dead Sea, and as the desert hills unfold toward the Jordan River the eye meets hundreds of rows of lush palms laden with succulent dates.


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More than a third of the world's Medjool dates are grown here in the Jordan Valley, a narrow strip of the West Bank where Israeli agriculture is flourishing. Nearly all Israeli grape exports, as well as abundant crops of peppers and herbs, also come from this arid region.

The European Union, Israel's No. 1 trading partner, accounts for about a third of its total trade, and was long the favored destination for Jordan Valley produce. But these fruits and vegetables are grown on land that Israel has occupied since 1967. For a growing number of European consumers, that's a problem. They say that buying such produce is supporting the illegal confiscation and control of land and water resources that should be in Palestinian hands.

The campaign is starting to bite. Last year, Jordan Valley farmers lost an estimated $29 million, or 14 percent of revenue, because they were forced to find alternative markets for their exports, such as Russia, where prices are 20 to 60 percent lower. Pepper exports to Western Europe have stopped completely, and grape exports are likely to be phased out this year because of consumer pressure, says David Elhayani, mayor of the Jordan Valley Regional Council and a farmer himself.

 

[Lipush]

Threatening a Jew with bycott is like threatening a cortigiana with venereal disease.

For hundreds of years Jews have been boycott, if within work, living, or religion, and we treated it like a daily struggle.

There is nothing a Jew knows better than the Gentile boycott and hate.

We never made a big deal out of it for hundreds of years, the only ones trying to make it a headline are liberals and Jew haters.

What a laugh

 

[MHunterB]

Wow. What an incredibly inept mixed metaphor the PB has kluged for its 'OP' gloat.......

But thanks for the reminder to add medjool dates to my shopping list : ))

 

[MHunterB]

Threatening a Jew with bycott is like threatening a cortigiana with venereal disease.

For hundreds of years Jews have been boycott, if within work, living, or religion, and we treated it like a daily struggle.

There is nothing a Jew knows better than the Gentile boycott and hate.

We never made a big deal out of it for hundreds of years, the only ones trying to make it a headline are liberals and Jew haters.

What a laugh

PB is hardly a 'liberal'......

 

[pbel]

Threatening a Jew with bycott is like threatening a cortigiana with venereal disease.

For hundreds of years Jews have been boycott, if within work, living, or religion, and we treated it like a daily struggle.

There is nothing a Jew knows better than the Gentile boycott and hate.

We never made a big deal out of it for hundreds of years, the only ones trying to make it a headline are liberals and Jew haters.

What a laugh

Thanks Lip...that is a heavy burden to carry, hence the solidarity...Why is it that the world is turning against Israel? Besides, Jews and Israel are not synonymous. I don't see any hate here in America towards Jews but Israel is beginning to raise moral eyebrows because she has used force and occupies land that belongs to the Palestinians...

really that simple...Hate in this case has nothing to do with it...That's why the world is turning against you.

 

[Phoenall]

Threatening a Jew with bycott is like threatening a cortigiana with venereal disease.

For hundreds of years Jews have been boycott, if within work, living, or religion, and we treated it like a daily struggle.

There is nothing a Jew knows better than the Gentile boycott and hate.

We never made a big deal out of it for hundreds of years, the only ones trying to make it a headline are liberals and Jew haters.

What a laugh

Thanks Lip...that is a heavy burden to carry, hence the solidarity...Why is it that the world is turning against Israel? Besides, Jews and Israel are not synonymous. I don't see any hate here in America towards Jews but Israel is beginning to raise moral eyebrows because she has used force and occupies land that belongs to the Palestinians...

really that simple...Hate in this case has nothing to do with it...That's why the world is turning against you.

But the world isn't turning against Israel, just the loony left and the neo-Nazis, and they are LYING about how much the boycotts are hurting Israel. Two European countries have enabled laws to counter the BDS movement as being racist and anti semitic. So the movement is dying a death as protesters are arrested for racism and incitement to violence. The only hate we see in Europe towards the Jews is that coming from the Islamic ghettos, and that is because the Jews are so much better of than they are.

 

[toastman]

Threatening a Jew with bycott is like threatening a cortigiana with venereal disease.

For hundreds of years Jews have been boycott, if within work, living, or religion, and we treated it like a daily struggle.

There is nothing a Jew knows better than the Gentile boycott and hate.

We never made a big deal out of it for hundreds of years, the only ones trying to make it a headline are liberals and Jew haters.

What a laugh

Thanks Lip...that is a heavy burden to carry, hence the solidarity...Why is it that the world is turning against Israel? Besides, Jews and Israel are not synonymous. I don't see any hate here in America towards Jews but Israel is beginning to raise moral eyebrows because she has used force and occupies land that belongs to the Palestinians...

really that simple...Hate in this case has nothing to do with it...That's why the world is turning against you.

You provided absolutely nothing new Pbel.

 

[RoccoR]

et al,

Israel just needs to hold (at a minimum) the "status quo" together. A Peace Settlement is better, but the "status quo" is sufficient.

The wiser strategy would put a halt on further expansion into the West Bank (seal it off and forget about it) and concentrate on:

• Further exploitation of the Levant Gas and Oil fields (generate revenue).
• Desalinization Programs (generate excess water for current needs and infrastructure).
• Expand and Develop the concentrating solar power (CSP) Program (low cost excess power generation).
• Other renewable energy projects (creating excess electrical energy).
• Expand the development of irrigated and farmable land in the Negev (new land completed with a total infrastructure backbone for population expansion).
• Increase the Tree Programs; some 240 million trees have been planted in Israel by Jewish National Fund (JNF). That program need to be doubled (at the very least).
• Help the JNF, which has already built 180 dams and water reservoirs, 1,000 parks, and started rehabilitation projects include cleaning up the polluted Alexander River, to do more, (coordinated with other infrastructure programs, will improve future development potential).

Israel must become the fastest developing nation in the Middle East, not that it isn't already the most productive nation with the greatest potential. In doing so, it becomes a manufacturing and commercial magnet. There is nothing more than Industry and Commerce like than a region that will increase their profits by reducing overhead. Low energy cost, from the excess, plenty of water and water-treatment facilities, new residential and business expansion, and transportation (highway, rail, port, air) all combine to make Israel a Mecca for industrial and commercial active. This means more jobs and schools, and a higher standard of living.

And this puts a whole new face on Israel, both by how it sees itself and how the world sees it.

Most Respectfully,
R

 

[pbel]

et al,

Israel just needs to hold (at a minimum) the "status quo" together. A Peace Settlement is better, but the "status quo" is sufficient.

The wiser strategy would put a halt on further expansion into the West Bank (seal it off and forget about it) and concentrate on:

• Further exploitation of the Levant Gas and Oil fields (generate revenue).
• Desalinization Programs (generate excess water for current needs and infrastructure).
• Expand and Develop the concentrating solar power (CSP) Program (low cost excess power generation).
• Other renewable energy projects (creating excess electrical energy).
• Expand the development of irrigated and farmable land in the Negev (new land completed with a total infrastructure backbone for population expansion).
• Increase the Tree Programs; some 240 million trees have been planted in Israel by Jewish National Fund (JNF). That program need to be doubled (at the very least).
• Help the JNF, which has already built 180 dams and water reservoirs, 1,000 parks, and started rehabilitation projects include cleaning up the polluted Alexander River, to do more, (coordinated with other infrastructure programs, will improve future development potential).

Israel must become the fastest developing nation in the Middle East, not that it isn't already the most productive nation with the greatest potential. In doing so, it becomes a manufacturing and commercial magnet. There is nothing more than Industry and Commerce like than a region that will increase their profits by reducing overhead. Low energy cost, from the excess, plenty of water and water-treatment facilities, new residential and business expansion, and transportation (highway, rail, port, air) all combine to make Israel a Mecca for industrial and commercial active. This means more jobs and schools, and a higher standard of living.

And this puts a whole new face on Israel, both by how it sees itself and how the world sees it.

Most Respectfully,
R

Money and commerce will never trump Morality.

 

[pbel]

Threatening a Jew with bycott is like threatening a cortigiana with venereal disease.

For hundreds of years Jews have been boycott, if within work, living, or religion, and we treated it like a daily struggle.

There is nothing a Jew knows better than the Gentile boycott and hate.

We never made a big deal out of it for hundreds of years, the only ones trying to make it a headline are liberals and Jew haters.

What a laugh

Thanks Lip...that is a heavy burden to carry, hence the solidarity...Why is it that the world is turning against Israel? Besides, Jews and Israel are not synonymous. I don't see any hate here in America towards Jews but Israel is beginning to raise moral eyebrows because she has used force and occupies land that belongs to the Palestinians...

really that simple...Hate in this case has nothing to do with it...That's why the world is turning against you.

You provided absolutely nothing new Pbel.

Yes, absolutely right Toast, looking at historical cycles are not new but an old and tested observation that History repeats its mistakes...

Try to break this cycle by throwing your hat in and post for peace and accept Palestine to the 67 borders with a shared Jerusalem or History will repeat for Israel two.

 

[Victory67]

Threatening a Jew with bycott is like threatening a cortigiana with venereal disease.

For hundreds of years Jews have been boycott, if within work, living, or religion, and we treated it like a daily struggle.

There is nothing a Jew knows better than the Gentile boycott and hate.

We never made a big deal out of it for hundreds of years, the only ones trying to make it a headline are liberals and Jew haters.

What a laugh

So then you don't mind a boycott of settlement goods and products? Glad to hear it.

 

[Indeependent]

Oh, pbel, just TOO funny.

Being an Orthodox Jew whose children went through the Yeshiva system, I have contact, both personally and through social media, with a few thousand families, many who have homes in the US AND in Israel.

I'm always asking them about this stuff and they give me a puzzled look and all they see is a new block constructed in Jerusalem every few months and yet another town or settlement packed to the gills with Observant Jews.

But keep up the negativity instead of getting your people's act together.

 

[RoccoR]

pbel, et al,

What is the moral right here?

Money and commerce will never trump Morality.

(COMMENT)

"An advanced society is marked by a complex use of commerce, politics, and social interaction.
An advanced society produces art, literature, and music that transcend former norms. There must be some social cohesion around ideas of morality."
Philosopher Anonymous from Ask.Com​

Again: No culture or society can claim the moral high ground when it openly promotes genocide to selfishly secure its future:

The Arabs of Palestine made a solemn declaration before the United Nations, before God and history, that they will never submit or yield to any power going to Palestine to enforce partition.

“The only way to establish partition is first to wipe them out – man women and child."​

However, a leadership that promotes the life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, --- the establishment of Justice, Domestic Tranquility, providing for a Common Defense, General Welfare, and Posterity, is a different animal all together. It is a nation and society that does advance industry and commerce to attain these things for its people. And the State of Israel is just such a country.

Most Respectfully,
R

 

[pbel]

Oh, pbel, just TOO funny.

Being an Orthodox Jew whose children went through the Yeshiva system, I have contact, both personally and through social media, with a few thousand families, many who have homes in the US AND in Israel.

I'm always asking them about this stuff and they give me a puzzled look and all they see is a new block constructed in Jerusalem every few months and yet another town or settlement packed to the gills with Observant Jews.

But keep up the negativity instead of getting your people's act together.

My peoples are Americans who have lost their lives fighting Islam because of the intransience of this peace process...Israeli policies are creating Jihadists like a pop-corn machine gone wild...

Palestinians are not my people, but I can clearly see that they got screwed for European atrocities during the holocaust and history.

I just want peace any peace that will stop Americans from fighting for a foreign state who's interests are counter-productive to our-own.

 

[Phoenall]

Thanks Lip...that is a heavy burden to carry, hence the solidarity...Why is it that the world is turning against Israel? Besides, Jews and Israel are not synonymous. I don't see any hate here in America towards Jews but Israel is beginning to raise moral eyebrows because she has used force and occupies land that belongs to the Palestinians...

really that simple...Hate in this case has nothing to do with it...That's why the world is turning against you.

You provided absolutely nothing new Pbel.

Yes, absolutely right Toast, looking at historical cycles are not new but an old and tested observation that History repeats its mistakes...

Try to break this cycle by throwing your hat in and post for peace and accept Palestine to the 67 borders with a shared Jerusalem or History will repeat for Israel two.

How many more times will it take before you understand that there is no such thing as '67 borders, they are an islamonazi fantasy based on an islamonazi BLOOD LIBEL. Read res 242 and show were it says '67 borders, and when you cant think about how easy it was to fool you into believing the LIES.

 

[Indeependent]

Oh, pbel, just TOO funny.

Being an Orthodox Jew whose children went through the Yeshiva system, I have contact, both personally and through social media, with a few thousand families, many who have homes in the US AND in Israel.

I'm always asking them about this stuff and they give me a puzzled look and all they see is a new block constructed in Jerusalem every few months and yet another town or settlement packed to the gills with Observant Jews.

But keep up the negativity instead of getting your people's act together.

My peoples are Americans who have lost their lives fighting Islam because of the intransience of this peace process...Israeli policies are creating Jihadists like a pop-corn machine gone wild...

Palestinians are not my people, but I can clearly see that they got screwed for European atrocities during the holocaust and history.

I just want peace any peace that will stop Americans from fighting for a foreign state who's interests are counter-productive to our-own.

Could you be a bit more specific about which military engagements US troops were involved in between Israel and their surrounding neighbors?

 

[Phoenall]

Threatening a Jew with bycott is like threatening a cortigiana with venereal disease.

For hundreds of years Jews have been boycott, if within work, living, or religion, and we treated it like a daily struggle.

There is nothing a Jew knows better than the Gentile boycott and hate.

We never made a big deal out of it for hundreds of years, the only ones trying to make it a headline are liberals and Jew haters.

What a laugh

So then you don't mind a boycott of settlement goods and products? Glad to hear it.

As long as you understand that when the Palestinians start dropping like flies it is your fault and not the fault of the Israelis. So blame yourself and all the other islamonazis who have LIED about Israel

 

[RoccoR]

pbel, et al,

What!

Oh, pbel, just TOO funny.

Being an Orthodox Jew whose children went through the Yeshiva system, I have contact, both personally and through social media, with a few thousand families, many who have homes in the US AND in Israel.

I'm always asking them about this stuff and they give me a puzzled look and all they see is a new block constructed in Jerusalem every few months and yet another town or settlement packed to the gills with Observant Jews.

But keep up the negativity instead of getting your people's act together.

My peoples are Americans who have lost their lives fighting Islam because of the intransience of this peace process...Israeli policies are creating Jihadists like a pop-corn machine gone wild...

Palestinians are not my people, but I can clearly see that they got screwed for European atrocities during the holocaust and history.

I just want peace any peace that will stop Americans from fighting for a foreign state who's interests are counter-productive to our-own.

Could you be a bit more specific about which military engagements US troops were involved in between Israel and their surrounding neighbors?

(QUESTION)

Yes, I would like to here this answer!

Most Respectfully,

 

[pbel]

pbel, et al,

What!

My peoples are Americans who have lost their lives fighting Islam because of the intransience of this peace process...Israeli policies are creating Jihadists like a pop-corn machine gone wild...

Palestinians are not my people, but I can clearly see that they got screwed for European atrocities during the holocaust and history.

I just want peace any peace that will stop Americans from fighting for a foreign state who's interests are counter-productive to our-own.

Could you be a bit more specific about which military engagements US troops were involved in between Israel and their surrounding neighbors?

(QUESTION)

Yes, I would like to here this answer!

Most Respectfully,

Middle East Policy Council | Israeli-Palestinian Peace: What Is the U.S. National Security Interest? How Can It Be Achieved?

BRUCE RIEDEL

Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a national security threat to America. Indeed, American lives are being lost today because of the perpetuation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A peace agreement is a, if not the, key to achieving most of our goals in the greater Middle East. It is not the solution to everything; it is not a panacea. But that is an unrealistic standard. "Solving the Arab-Israeli conflict won't solve every problem between Morocco and Bangladesh" is, frankly, a stupid reason not to try to move ahead and solve it.

 

[Indeependent]

pbel, et al,

What!

Could you be a bit more specific about which military engagements US troops were involved in between Israel and their surrounding neighbors?

(QUESTION)

Yes, I would like to here this answer!

Most Respectfully,

Middle East Policy Council | Israeli-Palestinian Peace: What Is the U.S. National Security Interest? How Can It Be Achieved?

BRUCE RIEDEL

Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a national security threat to America. Indeed, American lives are being lost today because of the perpetuation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A peace agreement is a, if not the, key to achieving most of our goals in the greater Middle East. It is not the solution to everything; it is not a panacea. But that is an unrealistic standard. "Solving the Arab-Israeli conflict won't solve every problem between Morocco and Bangladesh" is, frankly, a stupid reason not to try to move ahead and solve it.

Your previous post was past tense...answer the question.