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British telecom firm severs ties with Israeli counterparts
Meir Orbach
Published: 31.12.08, 20:04
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1. Its a mickey mouse firm
Danny   (12.31.08)
with overdue accounts. Maybe the cancellation is due to financial pressures and not the "Israeli Operation"
2. UK forgets that its part of Dar al Harb
Marc` ,   NJ USA   (12.31.08)
3. Brits
Jane   (12.31.08)
Filthy, hypocritical, disgusting Jew-haters. They issued the White Paper during WWII and now rely on emails. Once a pigpen, always a pigpen.
4. sever
alexi   (12.31.08)
The chamberlain and livingston wing of england has spoken. Radovan karodic was 100% right when he told mike wallace that the moselms are intolerant andn the US will find out.Well, with millions of loving moslems in england, buddy, you will find out sooner than you think.
5. ha ha ha
Ed S. ,   Falls Church, VA   (12.31.08)
I just checked out the website of this "company" that decided to boycott Israel. I don't think I've seen a website that pathetic since 1998. I think FreedomCall should focus a little bit more on hiring web designers instead of trying to play international politics. From the looks of their branding and design, I'm guessing MobileMax will be better off with partners who have entered this decade in technology.
6. CLASSIC Blatant UK Jew-hate
dr. dave ,   nyc   (12.31.08)
Funny how a country on the verge of being overwhelmed and swallowed up by it's "multicultural" inhabitants, loathes Jews...oooops....Israelis...so much.
7. Many thxs BT.. A company I am Happy to Buy
R Hitchings ,   Methil   (12.31.08)
shares in.. A moral stance I hope many more follow your example.. Bless You
8. FreedomCall's loss not Israels........
telavivit   (12.31.08)
9. Good rindance
mea   (12.31.08)
Israelis are massive cell phone users, so they'll simply use someone else.
10. I just looked it up
Nick ,   London   (12.31.08)
it's not a big or well known company, the website looks really bad and it will probably go out of business soon.
11. Without Israeli technology they'll soon be out of business
Raymond in DC ,   Washington, DC USA   (12.31.08)
FreedomCall must be feeling quite "superior" this morning, but its moral arrogance will be its undoing. Seriously, how many telecomm companies can get by without Israeli technology? So go ahead, boycott. Your loss.
12. Publicity stunt
Conker ,   Israel   (12.31.08)
Obviously a cheap publicity stunt, look at their website, its pathetic. http://www.freedomcall.co.uk/
13. UK firm severs ties
Mick ,   Warrington   (12.31.08)
Who are they kidding. Like most UK firms they'll be lucky to be in business this time next year. Maybe they can sell plastic phones to Woolworths...Expect more of this nonsense from loony left British firms but we are no economic superpower any longer and haven't been for a long time. The way the pound is going a shekel will buy more euros soon.
14. FreedomCall links with Pakistan
Mike B ,   London   (12.31.08)
FreedomCall has links with Pakistan and Oman. Perhaps MI6 should be intercepting its customers calls.
15. Get rid of this British dirt
Rosetta Stone ,   win canada   (12.31.08)
Israel, you cut ties with this dirty outfit. Let these scumbags be to themselves. They are saying to you Israel, that you either put up with hamas rocket attacks, or you'll have no ties with us. This type of vile dirt, you don't need. Good ridden to this filth!
16. Is this a Firm?
sb ,   Tel Aviv, Israel   (12.31.08)
What a lousy and unprofessional amateurish and childish behavior and website (http://www.freedomcall.co.uk/), just like their immature boycott. Who needs their business even in this time and day? Wishing MobileMax to find much better partners and lots of success in your endeavor.
17. Screw Britain.
Steven Wilson ,   Anchorage, Alaska   (12.31.08)
They always end up landing on the wrong side of history like a bad penny. Who needs phone service if you don't have a country to begin with. What did this moron think you needed his service for........to call you relatives and tell them you were being held captive by a bunch of blood thirsty cult followers, from the Hamas school girls fraternity?
18. #7
Jane   (12.31.08)
Another example of the British Alice in Wonderland complex. What is right is wrong and what is wrong is right. Especially when it concerns the Jews and even more particularly the Jews from that "shitty little country". Right, Hitchings, you worthless piece of crap.
19. Wankers! Israel does not need you!
Proud Israeli Jew! ,   Haifa, Israel   (12.31.08)
Go and do business with Hamas, they suite your no logice, no sense, no justice approach. I assume it would be a waste of time to check if you maintained business in Gaza while they bombarded incocent Israelis for years...we lead the world in technology and we shall dance Hava Nagila on the ruins of what will be left of your company...
20. FreedomCall rocks they must be antisemetic lol
FreedomCall ,   uk   (12.31.08)
FreedomCall rocks they must be antisemetic lol i will invest in this courageous firm
21. now brits are anti-semitic?
me ,   there   (12.31.08)
now brits are anti-semitic? typical jews
22. Everyone hates you!
IRAN#1   (12.31.08)
Your fears are true, nobody wants to even do business with you. You are the most hated in the world. Enjoy!
23. Smart marketing targeting the UK Muslims
GZLives   (12.31.08)
Clearly they will pick up a loyal Muslim consumer as a result of their public action. They are correctly reading the UK youth market which is Left, blindly in support of Islamism - although most think its the same as Islam, and fashionably anti Semitic - I mean anti Zionist of course. Bottom line is who cares - lets win this war and none of that sort of thing will matter.
24. Stupid Brits
david ,   Bronx NY   (12.31.08)
Sad how fashionable anti Zionism afflicts the Brits. Imagine the response of these self-righteous souls were somebody lobbing missiles into England. For their reward they will have more bombs in London. Is Oriana Falacci the only major western writer to point to the insanity of deliberately getting your civilians (children in particular) killed in order to claim great PR on earth and heaven?
25. Use another company
Moshe ,   Brooklyn   (12.31.08)
There are plenty of other companies to do business with.
26. How do we not do business with FreedomCall
(12.31.08)
Do they provide services to any secondary companies like skype so that pressure can be brought to bear on them?
27. here's their email address - tell 'em what you think!
(12.31.08)
cs@freedomcall.co.uk
28. Anyone know how to put an Israeli flag on their website?
(12.31.08)
29. Awwwww.What a crying shame?
Gideon Reader   (12.31.08)
Silly Buggers will be back under a new charter and a new name with a fresh LOGO bowing and scraping for affiliation and sales with/to Israel. Self abusing wankers need a good kicking, don't they then?
30. R's moral stance #7
William ,   Israel   (12.31.08)
Yes, we've seen your moral stance all over the world. The UKs fingerprints are on every hotspot thanks to duplicity and UK hubris. Yet your govt is happy to play the global occupier again with the recent possible addition of Angola to the "Commonwealth" after they rejected French ties. The most moral think you could do is boycott yourself. After the hell you caused in the world, the militancy of your own Muslims who are involved in terror around the world and march through the streets calling "Death to the Queen", and your continued business with Sudan, China, Zimbabwe, Pakistan...you really aren't fit to wave a finger.
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