I just believe boycoting Israel would be helping Israel and harming those we are trying to help. All I can see from a Boycot of Israel made product is job loses for Palestinians. And increased sales of non-Israel products from which Israel will make a larger profit.
Israels primary income is from non-product industries such as various services which inclde but is not limited to investment brokerage, wholesaling and other services which are used by virtualy all of the worlds businesses. Israeli products themselve are the lowest profit sources for Israel and loss of those will only hurt Palestinians and have no effect on Israel.
Salaam,
Once thin you need to undrstand that the thread is started is about one item but the boycott is for ALL isrealis goods,tangible or intangible.
As for boycotting the dates will helping Israel?
Can you pls explain?
Let us make a scenario.
Right now the Isrealis control Palesitne land and pay chep labour to force Palestinain to work.
These good are then sent thru out the world,under the name Isrealis goods.
May i ask who garner the greatest economic value from this?
The Palesitnian?
Or the Isrealis?
The Isrealis will get better trade deals,a huge demand for Isrelis Palestinina made product ,and they get moce economic aid to suppress and continue the oppresion.
Why will the Isrealis stop the oppresion and genocide in Palestine as long as they make money from it?
You say you want to save the lone Palesitina whom are working for the Isrealis out of force,,but are you saving their future generation or rahter enabling the Isrelais to further extend their mantra of oppresion?
The Isrealis will say via economic factor,Here we export dates to muslim and non muslim coutnries for Muslims,,,,they are clearly labelled made in israel...and these muslim support Israel good...
So why are people complaining about the oppresion of Palesitne people?
Dont they want their goods? Dont they want our porducts made cheap thru palestine??
[PIE]The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel was
launched in Ramallah in April 2004 by a group of
Palestinian academics and intellectuals to join the
growing international boycott movement. The Campaign built on the
Palestinian call for a comprehensive economic, cultural and academic boycott of Israel issued in August 2002 and a statement made by Palestinian academics and intellectuals in the occupied territories and in the Diaspora calling for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions in October 2003.[/PIE]
Source
http://www.pacbi.org/about.htm
The Palesitnina understand that by supporting Isrelais made good you are thus the murder and torture of Palestinians.
You cannot make a state when the other uses your resources and gain economic gain from It.
So it is simple,the Palestinian call for the boycott,
the people who Oppress them and murder and torture them,,ask you not to boycott..
What will you do?
Like i said before,the US have been giving huge economic aid,direct and indirect,to the Isrealis ,by blocking Isrealis goods and Isrealis services we will ensure that Israel as a nation is not viable..
Inshallah,the sacrifices the Palestinian have endured and are endurring,and all those loss of lives is all for one goal..Not to survive but to have their LAnd returned to them..
[PIE]
Palestinian Filmmakers, Artists and Cultural Workers Call for a Cultural Boycott of Israel
| | August 4, 2006
Dear Filmmakers & Artists,
During the past few weeks we have borne witness to the escalation of Israeli
aggression into open war on both Palestine and Lebanon.
With Israel’s invasion of Gaza on June 27th, 2006, ministries and educational institutions have been destroyed, as has the
plant that supplies nearly 50 percent of Gaza's electricity. Bridges, roads, dozens of homes, and hundreds of dunams of agricultural land have also been destroyed. Sixty-four elected Palestinian legislators, cabinet ministers and officials have been detained without charge.
On July 12th, Israel brought its campaign of collective punishment and military violence to Lebanon, with "Operation Just Reward". A complete assault, via land, sea, and air, of the Lebanese population and infrastructure has led to total destruction. In just 3 weeks, almost 1 million Lebanese civilians have been displaced and the death toll has reached 900 Lebanese and 160 Palestinians, with a UN count saying one-third of the dead are children.
Additionally, in violation of international law, Israel continues to occupy Gaza, the West Bank (including East Jerusalem), and Syria’s Golan Heights. In violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, Israel continues to hold
9,600 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails and detention centers without due process, among them 130 Palestinian women and 388 children, many of them taken from their homes in the middle of the night.
We, the undersigned Palestinian filmmakers and artists, appeal to all artists and filmmakers of good conscience around the world to cancel all exhibitions and other cultural events that are scheduled to occur in Israel, to mobilize immediately and not allow the continuation of the Israeli offensive to breed complacency. Like the boycott of South African art institutions during apartheid, cultural workers must speak out against the current Israeli war crimes and atrocities.
We call upon the
International community to join us in the boycott of Israeli film festivals, Israeli public venues, and Israeli institutions supported by the government, and to end all cooperation with these cultural and artistic institutions that to date have refused to
take a stand against the Occupation, the root cause for this colonial conflict.
We call upon you to take a stand in order to appeal to the Israeli people to give up their silence, to abandon their apathy, and to face up to their responsibility in the destruction and killing their elected government is wreaking. To the Lebanese and Palestinians terrorized by this Army's planes, bombs and missiles, this silence, apathy and lack of action from Israelis, are regarded as complicit in the ongoing war crimes, as for those Israeli artists, academics and intellectuals who continue to serve in the Israeli army they are directly implicated in these crimes.
We call upon you to give way to action that would replace words spoken too often and forgotten too quickly. We call upon you to make your voices heard in calling for an end to this bloodshed and an end to this oppression that has lasted too long.[/PIE]
In short they ask us the Ummah to take a stand with them,,,do we stand or do we walk aways?
