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Hi-tech firm boycotts Israel over 'war crimes'
Ehud Kenan
Published: 27.09.06, 08:10
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121. cadvre; Another delusional psychotic Jew-hater.
Daisy ,   USA   (09.28.06)
Israel has invented many products that you use. Lying about Israel's achievements is patheric. Just admit it you can't live without Israel LOSER! http://www.Israel21C.com
122. Zionist Arrogance....
jimmy ,   cincinnati, Ohio   (09.28.06)
This courage is rarely encountered,,Way to go U2U. Typical zionist reactions from many idiots asking to boycut the whole of Belgium for a GREAT ACT of responsibility by U2U..I'll check their site and buy from them as much as I can..GO U2U...
123. Everybody should have the same attitude
marcelo ,   porto   (09.28.06)
I agree 100%! Nobody should do business with israeli jews, a bunch of war criminals, the responsibels for the situation in the meadle est, namely Palestin, wich spread to America, Europe and the rest of the world. They should be isolated from the civilization, until they learn to respect their neigbors.
124. Israel should have economic sanctions imposed on it
Rick ,   Toronto Canada   (09.28.06)
I have nothing against Jews and many of my best friends are Jewish. Zionists however are the curse of the world. Israel (which is run by Zionists) has broken more U.N. resolutions than any country in it's history. (gee, I wonder why you never hear about that...) This being the case, I believe it's time we start reigning in Israel through economic sanctions so that they can experience exactly what they are doing to the Palestinians. In this manner, I applaud the Belgian company and hope many other companies will follow suit. Furthermore, as a devout Christian, I PRAY EVERY DAY that the leaders of both Israel and the United States be brought to justice before the International War Crimes trubunal for their ongoing crimes against humanity. If Man won't hold them accountable, they can rest assured that God will! The problem is, they are making millions of people suffer as a result of their greed. May God Bless everyone in this world who believes in and upholds the 10 Commandments, subscribes to the Philosophy of Tao and follows the Golden Rule, for they are the TRUE Children of God. Anyone who brings violence, death and suffering to others must be brought to justice.
125. To #110
JohnR ,   Dallas, USA   (09.28.06)
England is a democratic country and does not have a written constitution. Better brush up on your history.
126. Does no one know the Belgian Holocaust ?
Eve ,   Venice   (09.28.06)
Published on Thursday March 2, 2005 by the Los Angeles Times A Monument to Denial by Adam Hochschild No country likes to come to terms with embarrassing parts of its past. Japanese schoolbooks still whitewash the atrocities of World War II, and the Turkish government continues to deny the Armenian genocide. Until about 1970, the millions of visitors to Colonial Williamsburg saw no indication that roughly half the inhabitants of the original town were slaves. Until recently, one of the world's more blatant denials of history had been taking place at the Royal Museum of Central Africa, an immense, chateau-like building on the outskirts of Brussels. It was founded a century ago by Belgium's King Leopold II, who, from 1885 to 1908, literally owned the Congo as the world's only privately controlled colony. Right through the 1990s, the museum's magnificent collection of African art, tools, masks and weapons — among the largest and best anywhere, much of it gathered during the 23 years of Leopold's rule — reflected nothing of what had happened in the territory during that period. It was as if a great museum of Jewish art and culture in Berlin revealed nothing about the Holocaust. The holocaust visited upon the Congo under Leopold was not an attempt at deliberate extermination, like the one the Nazis carried out on Europe's Jews, but its overall toll was probably higher. Soon after the king got his hands on the colony, there was a worldwide rubber boom, and Leopold turned much of the Congo's adult male population into forced labor for gathering wild rubber. His private army marched into village after village and held the women hostage to force the men to go into the rain forest, often for weeks out of each month, to tap rubber vines. This went on for nearly two decades. Though Leopold made a fortune estimated at well over $1 billion in today's dollars, the results were catastrophic for Congolese. Laborers were often worked to death, and many female hostages starved. With few people to hunt, fish or cultivate crops, food grew scarce. Hundreds of thousands of people fled the forced-labor regime, but deep in the forest they found little to eat and no shelter, and travelers came upon their bones for years afterward. Tens of thousands more rose up in rebellion and were shot down. The birthrate plummeted. Disease — principally sleeping sickness — took a toll in the millions among half-starved and traumatized people who otherwise might have survived. Leopold's murderous regime was exposed in its own day by a brave band of activists: American, British and Swedish missionaries, and a hard-working British journalist, E.D. Morel. Any historian of Africa knows the basic story, and many have written about parts of it. In 1998, I finished a book on the subject, "King Leopold's Ghost," which was published in Belgium and drew furious denunciations from royalists and conservatives. The foreign minister sent a special message to Belgian diplomats abroad, counseling them on how to answer awkward questions from readers. Asked if the museum planned changes, a senior official of the Royal Museum of Central Africa replied that some were under study, "but absolutely not because of the recent disreputable book by an American." (…)
127. VERY VERY GOOD BELGIUM
American ,   USA   (09.28.06)
Thats Ireland and Belgium now!! joining the israil boycott!! CONGRATULATIONS- STAY BRAVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
128. Slowly the World is Coming to its Senses
Eyes Open ,   Canada   (09.28.06)
Bravo World Citizen for hitting the nail on the head! Zionist Israel continually uses the holocaust and the term anti-semitism to half any criticism of Israel and to justifiy holocaust - on the Palestinian people. You build a house on my back and leave me with nothing, not even dignity, but the world feels sorry for you instead of me. That's because of the Zioinist controlled media - especially in the West. Black is white and white is black where Israel is concerned. Let's call a spade a spade Israel is guilty of perpetrating and maintaining an Apartheid state. The world brought South Africa to its senses with sanctions and boycotts and the time has finally come for Israel. U2U has the cojones to do the right thing and many more around the world should follow this example.
129. Belgium should preach...
Dr. NO ,   jerusalem   (09.28.06)
http://www.harvardindependent.com/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleID=8394 Europe's screen door How Belgium is worse than just a pushover 2/20/2003 By Noah McCormack
130. Belgium should preach... III
Dr. NO ,   jerusalem   (09.28.06)
Bad Manners Of course, not all Belgians are rude and disagreeable. But I defy you to find anyone ruder than a rude Belgian. They are like the French, but without the redeeming features. The rudest people that I have met have been Belgians, and the same goes for a multitude of my friends and acquaintances. And even the Belgians agree. They hate each other. The Walloons (that it is, the French speakers) hate the Dutch-speaking Flemish, and the favor is returned in spades. The Flemish North wants to split off, leaving what the New York Times describes as "the French-speaking Wallonia region isolated with its industrial decay, institutional corruption and Mafia gangs. So far, the corruption charges [see above] have concerned Wallonia." It goes without saying that Belgium has been particularly hard hit with the current Church scandals, with the Catholic hierarchy being accused of letting pedophile priests run around willy-nilly, despite repeated complaints lodged against some of them. Cardinal Godfried Danneels testified at the trial of a priest accused of several cases of pedophilia. The cardinal admitted that he was responsible for appointment of the priest but not for his behavior, despite the fact that parents had complained about the behavior of the priests in question. A man wiser than I once said that he loved people but hated humanity. That is my attitude towards Belgians. I am sure, that out of 10 million of them, there are plenty of them who are decent people with whom I would like to be friends (they are most probably Flemish). But Belgium as a nation is beyond redemption, a state of Nazi-sympathizing royalty, pedophile-harboring judges and Taliban-protecting politicians. Even tasty waffles can't balance that out. Noah McCormack '04 is a Government concentrator in Quincy House. His favorite activity at Sunday brunch is making his own waffles. see also: http://www.moreorless.au.com/killers/leopold.html http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/jobrien/reference/ob73.html
131. Refusing to do business with Israel
Moonwolf ,   North Vancouver, Can   (09.28.06)
Great! It's about time corporate entities realized that associating their businesses with the pariah state of Israel will erode their bottom lines.
132. Borcott U2U
Moonwolf ,   N.Vancouver, Canada   (09.28.06)
Mark, What are the names of your companies again so that I can boycott you and your ilk out of existence!
133. USA and Canada
israeli ,   israel   (09.28.06)
All of you Americans and Canadians besmirching Israel - you have wiped out the natives of the North American continent. You (or your ancestors) have actually mass-murdered the native Indian tribes and killed off their bison. You have starved them to death and driven them into near extinction (the Indians). You shut them up in reservations. What right do you have to preach to Israel, where Israeli Arabs are equal citizens? Israel's war is with Palestinian terrorists. Your war is with your fellow Americans and Canadians. In Canada the English and the French cannot live side by side. So STFU and do some spring cleaning in your own homes before you put on your holier than thou mask. That is, if you are not some sorry ass Arab/Muslim Johnnie come lately's.
134. Not, 111 You are not an anti-semite
Eyes Open ,   Canada   (09.28.06)
A must read for anyone who thinks any criticism of Israel is akin to anti-semitism: Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History by Norman Finklestein (yes, a Jew). Educate yourself on the plight of Palestine and Israeli Apartheid with these documentaries:- Palestine is still the issue: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14019.htm The Iron Wall: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13749.htm Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land: US Media and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: http://opposingdigits.com/vlog/?p=128 And anyone who doesn't understand what Zionism is, listen to this lecture by Rabbi Goldstein: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1456.htm
135. Boycot Injustice
John ,   Los Angeles, CA, USA   (09.28.06)
If you wish to forestall boycots, encourage your Zionist leaders to stop increasing world wide anamosity against 'Israel' and decent Jews worldwide in order to artificially speed Alyah and provide pretext for enlarging the borders/search for water. Force your leaders to adopt a Constitution similar to the US model, based on Freedom for all races and creeds, and spell out the exact limits of your borders and govt power. Stop acting like a former European nationalist socialist state and you will have peace eventually...if that is what you truly want. Nice propaganda piece btw.
136. israel
Moonwolf ,   North Vancouver, Can   (09.28.06)
About our aboriginal population. You are right we did a bad job. One of the differences between Canada and Israel, (and there are plenty thank goodness), is that we learned from our mistakes, apologized and are redressing the cruelty we committed. You people have no ability to learn from your mistakes. Every time someone mentions you might be just a bit out to lunch, you go into the past of that country and try and besmirch modern day citizens with some reference to something bad their ancestors did centuries ago and then use that to justify your barbarism. Man what a failed "logic" that is! We don't have to look far into the past for a constant stream of murder and kidnapping from Zionist zealots. From the Stern Gang, right on through the imposition of your peanut sized little gulag, and continuing right now in Apartheid Palestine. You are nothing but a bunch of whiners and the lovely piece of this is WE'RE NOT BUYING IT ANYMORE! Start negotiating in good faith if you have the courage. Other wise the demise of "God's chosen" is imminent, and when the country you live in is dust everyone else will breathe a sigh of relief!
137. Rick; You are a devout Muslim not Christian.
Daisy ,   USA   (09.28.06)
Real Christians support Israel not Arab terrorists. Read the Bible Muslim extremist.
138. Israel-haters: Why are you still using your computers?
Daisy ,   USA   (09.28.06)
C'mon boycott Israel now!
139. Same Couple of People writeing these Anti Israel Talkbacks
Sam Weinstein ,   USA   (09.28.06)
Same Couple of People writeng these Anti Israel Talkbacks. The terminolgy and language seems to be the same. Can someone at ynetnews check the ip addresses to be sure for a location
140. #133
John ,   Los Angeles, CA, USA   (09.28.06)
Using evil to justify further evil is an interesting rhetorical tool, but that is where it ends. I would put to you that at least the West employs spring cleaning, whereas the Zionists consistantly attempt to sweep dirt under a rug and hide it. Even Torah dictates a thourough cleaning every year! What better place to start than with govt? Your ad hominems and foul mouth notwithstanding, you are a rather poor example of jewish thought and moral fiber. Kfotz Li.
141. u2u
shim shom ,   ireland   (09.28.06)
the comments say it all, but 4 says it best. Isreal you are nothing.
142. U2U Boycott
Joyce ,   Scotland   (09.28.06)
Good for U2U! Already many thousands of people in the Uk boycott israeli goods, sport, culture etc. Nice to see companies joining in. Israel can change all of this by dismantling the Aoartheid Wall, ending the occupation of Palestine and listening to its own peace movement.
143. Israel Haters.
Moonwolf ,   N.Vancouver, Canada   (09.29.06)
#138 Daisy, Is that Daisy as in Daisy Cutters, like the ones you left littering Southern Lebanon to kill little children or is it just Daized and you don't know how to spell? If that foul mouth of yours,backed up by nothing but spittle is the best you got bring it on! #139 Sam Weinstein, Not the same people Sam. Actually a lot of different people. Amazing isn't it? Many, many people, including Jews with a conscience are anti-Zionist and the numbers are growing. Expect to see more of us on your mutual admiration sites in the future. You expect the webmaster to check and see if your paranoid delusions are accurate? Now quick! Get on the next plane and run hide behind your futile Apartheid Wall in Palestine before the big bad "ant-semites" get you!
144. You are all hypocrites
lucifer ,   USA   (09.29.06)
dang straight i agree .. why dont all you zionist please give our tax money back and stop being lazy .. i boycott isreal along time ago .... i rather help USA poor then zionist any day
145. to all anti-Israel and #139
israeli ,   israel   (09.29.06)
It's the same people writing on all fora, not just here. Same terminology, similar quotes. I suggest these "people" are actually professional propagandists on the payroll of Islamofascism, trying to spread disinformation and create confusion. How funny, though, Canada and USA duly apologized AFTER they commited the genocide, and erased almost all trace of native Indian culture, which is NOT THE CASE in Israel, Gaza and West Bank. I even watched a documentary recently, where a US court of law ordered the US government to pay the descendants of some indian tribes USD 150 (one hundred and fifty) each for dispossessing them of their ancestral lands in California. Some reparation! Do you think that might actually work in ME? #140, you are no John from no LA, California, only Arabs refer to "Israil" as the Zionist entity and the "Israilis" as Zionists. You can't fool anyone anymore, ya habibi! If you were a Christian, John (as in John the Baptist), you would know that Jesus said - Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. #136, Moonwolf in North Vancouver, Canada, aboriginal actually describes natives Australians, ya eini. Never underestimate a Jew's (Zionist's) intellect and knowledge. Moon wolf spells allah, the lunar god. Shouldn't you better be fasting and praying, or whatever it is that you do during Ramadan? Make sure that the Gates of heaven open for you on Id-el-fitter? Even the way you refer to Apartheid Palestine, even though you know full well that Israeli Arabs enjoy the best standard of living Arabs and Muslim can get in the ME, indicates that you consider any piece of Israel occupied Palestine. As for the "peanut size" of our country, you are right. We are too small to bother your pretty little head with us, go find bigger fish to fry - Darfur, e.g. for more info, please check this out: http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART1/483/521.html and then you can STFU for good!
146. Moonterrorist; Why are using Zionist technology stuoid!
Daisy ,   USA   (09.29.06)
More and more people are supporting the great country of Israel! I'm not Jewish and all my friends and family that support Israel are not either. We are not blood-thisrty savages like you and your people. You couldn't live without the invnetions of Israel. Just try for one hour hypocrite.
147. #141; You are nothing! So much jealousy of the Jews.
Daisy ,   USA   (09.29.06)
All of these people are high-school dropouts who make minimum wage. They are failures in life and that is why they hate the Jews. WHAT A BUNCH OF LOSERS FROM HELL!
148. Sam; It'sprobably just one person writing all the talkbacks.
Daisy ,   USA   (09.29.06)
Haven't you noticed that they all sound the same? What do you expect from a bum who lives in his mother's attic?
149. "Palestine" doesn't exist!
Palestiniansareamyth ,   USA   (09.29.06)
http://www.sullivan-county.com/id3/palestine.htm
150. #143 Proves my point same people posting
Sam Weinstein ,   USA   (09.29.06)
#143 Proves my point same people posting maybe from that company or some website. but definately same person. Easy enough to prove check the ip address ynetnews. I am sure it is recorded from each talkback response.
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