'Palestinian' boycott of 'settlement products' a British idea
And I used to think the French were our biggest enemies outside the Arab world.... The 'Palestinians' started boycotting 'settlement products' a few months ago (the picture is of 'Palestinian Prime Minister' Salam Fayyad throwing such products in a fire). Apparently, the idea to do so was British. The Palestinian Authority deputy minister of the economy, Abdel Hafez Nofal, revealed that the British minister of trade had suggested to him that the PA institute a boycott of products of Israeli settlements, that is, products of any Israeli community or factory or plant across the 1949 armistice line from the pre-1967 Little Israel, the rump of the Jewish National Home territory left to the Jews after the War of Independence. So a British minister recently prodded the PA into ordering a boycott by its population of Jewish products made in the wrong place, that is, on the wrong side of the armistice line. To be sure, since Arab workers too work in many of the Jewish-owned plants, we could say that the products are also Arab in part. Here is the quote:Given their complicity in the Holocaust via the White Paper, I suppose we can't be too surprised.. . . Abdel Hafez Nofal, 56 years old, Palestinian deputy minister of the Economy. He is "Mr Boycott": "Everything started when the English minister of Trade said to me, 'We have decided to boycott the products of the settlements. And you?'"It is not fully clear whether, when the British minister said "We have decided. . .", that the "we" referred to the British or to the EU. In any case, it is likely that the UK took the lead in the EU in pushing for a boycott.
[Il Sole- 24 Ore, 22 October 2010; p12]
Labels: British anti-Semitism, Salam Fayyad, settlement product boycott, White Paper
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:34 PM
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