Arabs boycotting Adidas and other sponsors over Jeruasalem Marathon sponsorship
A year ago, the Jerusalem Marathon changed its route in order to avoid any areas liberated by Israel in 1967, and a threatened boycott against the Marathon's principle sponsor, Adidas. This year, the Marathon was too successful for the Arabs' taste. The youth and sports ministers of all Arab countries, led by 'our friends the Saudis,' have announced a boycott of Adidas and of all other sponsors of the Jerusalem Marathon. “All companies that have sponsored the marathon of Jerusalem, including Adidas, will be boycotted,” said Saudi Prince Nawaf bin Faisal, chairman of the Arab youth and sports council of ministers, after a meeting in Jeddah.Funny, that's not why Prince Nawaf said that they are boycotting, is it? Note that Prince Nawaf didn't say anything about 'Arab east Jerusalem.' He said "Israel is trying to misguide public opinion into believing that Jerusalem is its capital." It sounds like they're objecting to Jerusalem being Israel's capital - just like the Hussein Obama administration.
Prince Nawaf told a press conference the ministers also agreed to organize a separate marathon next year to coincide with the annual Jerusalem event.
That event will take place under the title “Jerusalem is Ours” in cities throughout the Arab world next March.
“Israel is trying to misguide public opinion into believing that Jerusalem is its capital and that is a violation of all U.N. resolutions,” added Nawaf.
Around 15,000 runners participated in the Mar. 16 International Jerusalem Marathon, which sparked controversy because part of the route passed through Arab east Jerusalem.
For those of you who want to see the Marathon route (yes, it did go briefly into the Old City, onto the Mount of Olives and onto Mount Scopus, although the latter was actually an Israeli enclave from 1948-67), let's go to the videotape.
The mile translations in that video are off (if you noticed, they made 42 kilometers, but only 25 miles - a marathon is 26.2 miles), but if you noticed that hill at the 15.65 mile mark in the video, I used to use that hill for sprints when I was trying (pretty unsuccessfully) to get back into shape about ten years ago.
Luckily, since the Arabs are going to make many marathons, they probably won't have much of an effect on ours. Maybe I should start training again (longtime readers may recall that I used to be a marathoner, about 20 years and 60 pounds ago).... Nah, this one has too many hills and is too hard to run. Tiberias would probably be easier.
Labels: Adidas, Arab boycott of Israel, Jerusalem Marathon
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:34 PM
3 Comments:
First off, Arabs typically lie about this sort of thing so there will be no boycott. Secondly, who cares what they claim. But if there's a race to see who's the best wife beater the Saudis will take the gold.
Trudy, there's a book just published by an Islamic "scholar", a follower of The Religion of Peace, called "A Gift for the Muslim Couple". It was written by "Islamic scholar" Hazrat Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi. It advises the Muslim husband how best to go about beating his wife.
Here's an article about it at Jihad Watch. Since no Arab or Muslim has ever won a Nobel Prize for Literature or Science, maybe some affirmative-action-minded Nobel Prize committee members will give Ali Thanvi a Nobel Prize for Literature for this. (Hey, that's no crazier or sicker than giving Yasser Arafat a Nobel Peace Prize.)
captain h
u should do you home work before u speak
ahmed zewail 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Naguib Mahfouz, the Nobel Peace Prize in Literature winner, 1988
Mohammad Abdus Salam 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics
Orhan Pamuk 2006 Nobel in literature
and six winer in pice (that namber just might be cuz the world know whos the picefull and whos not)
wow if i am to but a rock in every dog mouth that park on us like u guys then tomorrow rockes would be sold for 100$ each
pice
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