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'Palestinians will lose jobs if boycott persists'
Elior Levy
Published: 20.05.12, 00:55
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31. I want to know
Ralph ,   Rishon   (05.20.12)
No 20 - so next time you are ill, PLEASE make sure that you are not given Israeli produced medicines, or should you unfortunately have to have an operation, make sure you tell the operating theatre staff not to use Israeli made equipment. Mind you, please open your computer, you'll probably find Israeli made parts there, as well as in your cellular phone. So get rid of them, quick.
32. I have 2 solutions (not one!)
BDS ,   Central Command   (05.20.12)
One: Relabel the product "Made in Occupied Palestinian Territory" and let these factories answer to Palestinian tax and export authorities. Two: Move the factories to inside Israel proper.
33. SO WHAT!!??
David ,   Haifa, Israel   (05.20.12)
we should not employ them anyhow
34. This boycott will never make even a
anti boycott   (05.20.12)
dent in the Israeli economy. In less than a week all these factories can be relocated in the same country called Israel but further west, south or north. True, the cost of the output will be higher, but NO problem. Labelling the items as the South African Government want to do will only bolster the stupid ideological ego of mutants like Graczek, Edithann and their likes. It will especially put their beloved West bank Arabs, plus their families, in sheer jeopardy for lack of employment. Whilst Graczek is talking about "falling chips" he gives less than a damn about falling West bank Arab families. Why don't you come over and build them your own version of factories? The good people of Israel certainly know so well people like you: words and words without any backing !!!
35. Dear Dr Rob Davies, I hereby would
The real story   (05.20.12)
like to attract your attention to the grave situation in which you and your country may find yourselves vis-a-vis Israeli products. Please start checking every and each computer for Israeli parts for there are so many and discard everything forthright. Please also check your medical utilities, medicines and operating techniques and get rid of all of them immediately because they are surely Israeli. Please get rid of any other Israeli technology and weaponry simply because they are also produced and developed in israel and they may endanger world peace and South Africa. In one word, please get rid of every Israeli modern sign of civilization and turn your country into what it used to be before your fore fathers colonized it with the power of their merciless guns and by letting so much blood flow in the African valleys and fields. Where did your colonizing forefathers come from? Oh, yes of course, Europe !
36. A curse on the people of SA
ProphetS ,   USA   (05.20.12)
... For bringing forth his action. My their personal finances be ruined.
37. Elior Levy is an idiot! Let me explain........
Danny ,   Florida   (05.20.12)
What is this "West Bank"? Where is this "West Bank"? Does Elior Levy not know that what he calls the "West Bank" has been Judea & Samaria for over 3000 years? STOP USING THIS FALSE NAME!
38. South Africa, failed State.
JJ ,   South Africa   (05.20.12)
I also want to know where these products come from... So that we can also buy them. I don't know how they will mark them, but will probably make it easier for us to spot them on the shelves & to buy them. You keep on exporting and we will keep on buying. We bought a whole lot of Israeli products e.g. Matzos, wine & other sweet delicacies last Pesach. All imported from Israel. Superior products in every sense. The ANC is running a failed state, yet they keep on meddling in other states affairs.
39. To: No. 20
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (05.20.12)
Better throw away your mobile phone. That's Israeli technology. Hope you or someone you love will not ever require chemotherapy -- over 70% of the chemotherapy protocols in use throughout the world today were developed in Israel. No worries -- just ask your good buddies the ersatz "Palestinians" to develop a mobile phone for you. I'm sure they will come up with two tin cans and a long piece of string for you to use. You're an idiot.
40. Up to a point
JJ ,   South Africa   (05.20.12)
I agree, stop exporting any technological equipment, software & expertise to SA, anything that may assist the ANC government. However, keep on exporting your foodstuffs etc and we will keep on buying them, no matter what signs they mark these products with. As South Africans, my wife & I have just decided to buy all online products from Israel first, even if we may have to pay a little more.
41. GOOD! FIRE ALL OF THEM & SEND THEM TO HELL!!!!
ALBERTO   (05.20.12)
42. To: No. 3
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (05.20.12)
Have you thrown away your mobile phone yet, Mr. "Ideology?"
43. Stick to the facts
Mike Carmel ,   Rishon le Zion   (05.20.12)
When responding to the SA boycott only the factory owners' comments about it being damaging for the Palestinian workers are relevant to the issue and have any concrete substance. All the other comments such as childish tit-for-tat allegations of "racism" coming from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and others in these talkbacks are just irrelevant emotional nonsense.
44. # 10 Stupid comment
Keren IL-BR ,   Ginnosar   (05.20.12)
What a stupid comment. Americans just buy wrongly labelled israeli products because they don't know they originated from robbed land. Americans are law-obeying with a strong sense of Justice. Don't use this USA in your fake name. I hope Brazil will soon start boycotting settlements products. It is a 200 million market and soon the whole Latin American will follow Brazil.
45. To nr 3 mr Graczek
Istvan ,   BUDAPEST HUNGARY   (05.20.12)
Ha ha ha, ideology and South Africa ! One ideology exists there, the crime. But some ideology really in practice, every time a white citizen is murdered by blacks, police carefully explains for relatives, that the victim was not murdered by colour, but had too many money. Nr 1 monster state in the world !
46. S A
leon ,   brussels belgium   (05.20.12)
Kauff nicht by juden. Hysteri is repeating.. History is repeating, By democratic: CHINA, IRAN, Russia, By ZimbabweiTurkey Nord and South Africa,
47. #37..Yes, it's Judea and Samaria, NOT West Bank
Abraham ben Jacob ,   Canada   (05.20.12)
We discredit ourselves and do Israel an injustice by using the term "west bank ". If Israelis, and other Jews and non-Jewish supporters of Israel only use the real names of Judea and Samaria, I believe this can possibly gain momentum and start something important.
48. "Occupied Palestinian Territory"
Zev ,   Israel   (05.20.12)
The main problem is that Israeli governments have done nothing to deny that Yehuda and Shomron is Palestiniam territory. Once this is established as fact all of the propaganda is accepted. I blame no one other than our own politicians.
49. The left loves victims...
Daniel ,   TA - IL   (05.20.12)
they are easier to use and abuse for the left's parasitic agenda... and have in the past been mor ethan willing to create victims, stalin 30- 40 millin, mao 40 -50 million, hitler 35 million, pol pot - 2 million out ofa country with less than 4 million inhabitants - isn't naom chomsky's hero someone to be proud of!).
50. This is not about the peace process
Debra ,   Johannesburg South A   (05.20.12)
The people running the BDS campaign in South Africa do not care whether there is a peace process or not. They want the destruction of Israel, They are always calling for a one-state solution-this letter is a foil for their real sentiment. Israel should not be overwhelmed by this official announcement and fight this at the Hague once and for all. .The territories are disputed and not occupied even according to International law. A country can only occupy the land of another sovereign country. There is no Palestine. SA has massive trade with China and there is never a word in SA by these "humanists" re trade with China...need I say more! Stop trade with SA-SA will suffer more!
51. What about all the foreigners being killed?
Wenzel ,   South Africa   (05.20.12)
We have more problems in SA than we could handle, South African locals kill foreigners from other African countries, what do we understand about peace as South Africans? Or trade? Foreigners who helped us in Apartheid, now SA has something to say about the conflict in the Middle East? We have some of the highest murder stats, unemployment stats, rape stats and the list goes on. What do we have to say about Israel or any other country for that matter???
52. Keren # 44 Stupid Post
Eaglebeak ,   Left Coast, USA   (05.20.12)
How do you think Americans got their land? Do you think the Indians said " Here come those law obeying people with a strong sense of justice, lets give them our land?"
53. The "Palestiniean Authority" had also tried to Boycott
Ariel Barkan   (05.20.12)
Last year, the "Palestiniean Authority" had tried to make a boycott on Israeli factories in Ariel/Barkan factories, where ISraeli and arabs has been working together for over 20 years and all doing just fine! "Palestiniean Authority" asked the Arabs to stop working there. Non of them did...
54. # 10 Thank you for the link.
Eaglebeak ,   Left Coast, USA   (05.20.12)
Notice I didn't use your name on the subject line. I wouldn't want Dan in NYC to think I'm sucking up or anything. Ha ha ha.
55. SA that is Mugabes lifeline&persecutes refugees fleeing
PETER SM ,   AUSTRALIA   (05.20.12)
Mugabe. Sounds like SA has no morals left
56. The worthless Palestinians...
Jake Stone ,   USA   (05.20.12)
...deserve what they get...and, that's nothing! They should be grateful that Israel allows them to work! Personally, I'd send everyone of those godless heathens to Jordan, their true homeland!
57. The Arabs will lose their jobs
Stan ,   Sagie   (05.20.12)
OH DEAR! It's so boring, everything the South Africans said 40 years ago the Israelis are saying now. All you smart arses who think you can wish the Arabs away, or hope that your outlandish solutions will somehow work. Don't you realise that another 15000 unemployed are not going to stop the Pals in their struggle for an independent state. But tell me this you good people, why are you supporting these factories which moved to the West Bank to pay less rent, very little or no municipal taxesand smaller transport costs, and to pay the Pals a quarter of what they would have to pay Israelis.? The 15000 Israelis they have replaced are those in Israel who are worst off, so where is your Zionism? Dr. Liel is right! (See my takbacks on the other article on this subject # 42,43,45)
58. To Sarah B.
cristian ,   earth   (05.20.12)
Dear Sarah B., what you do for living? Is there any article in ynetnews that you did not commented yet? Someone pays you to comment here? Get a job, do something useful for the mother earth, don`t waste your time here.
59. #22
Sam M ,   UK   (05.20.12)
The indigenous inhabitants are the Jews which is why tens of thousands of ancient artefacts, numerous historical records, ancient maps and even the koran confirm that the Land of Israel is the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people. There is no historical evidence whatsoever to support a palestinian claim. You’re a complete moron who has never bothered to read history preferring to substitute opinion for fact. The stupidity of your comments are revealed by the following quote by Zahir Muhsein a PLO leader in an interview in 1977 and recorded for posterity. “The Palestinian people do not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the State of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct ‘Palestinian people’ to oppose Zionism for tactical reasons. Jordan, a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa. As a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan.” When a leading arab official and incidentally this is by no means the only quote captured for posterity exposes the ‘palestinian cause’ as an invention and spells it out in black and white; what does that say about you then? I’ll leave you to figure that one out!
60. Stan Who sdtopped Pals having their own state 64 years ago?
PETER SM ,   AUSTRALIA   (05.20.12)
What was wrong with all the West Bank, all Gaza plus a large part of Jerusalem plus the vast majority of the original mandate,all ethnically cleansed of Jews? Why arent they & their syncophants calling to liberate the vast majority of the original mandate? They dont want their own state they want Israels state as repeated surveys of the Arabs show. On the other hand the vast majority of Israelis want two seperate states. Suggest you be a good fellow and ask Abbas to turn up,not look for excuses and negotiate peace,borders and an end to all further demands. Then let us know how he will deliver.
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