Thursday, November 19, 2009

A call for boycott


The Palestine Authority has called on the public to boycott several large supermarket chains in the West Bank that carry Israeli products.
The decision targets upscale markets in Ramallah, in an attempt to pressure the stores to discontinue the sale of fruits and vegetables grown and processed on Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
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9 comments:

  1. thankgodimatheistNovember 19, 2009 at 5:18 PM

    Why did they wait so long?

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  2. vzaNovember 19, 2009 at 6:30 PM

    They are only calling for a boycott of Settlement-produced merchandise. Interesting that settlement goods comprise a 15% share of the Palestinian market! Good grief! They are asking others around the world to boycott Israeli products while they do not?!

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  3. vNovember 19, 2009 at 6:57 PM

    I know it will sound petty,  but some of the products are the only ones of their type available.  So there is subsidized sale from the standpoint of production and distribution (cheaper) by Israel.  So,  it is not so easy to distinguish that which comes from Israel proper,  it is not just a matter of  - Israel's stuff here,  settler stuff there.  Some of the settler goods are sent to Israel for packagig,  and than displayed as such.  Lots of confusion.

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  4. vNovember 19, 2009 at 7:02 PM

    I imagine what the Israelis will do,  if all settler items are cut off,  is add a value tax to the products that come from Israel.  That way they will still get a steady stream of income,  and the Palestinians will still be paying for their own demise.

    Here is another question - how many Palestinian products are sitting on Israeli shelves?  I would venture to say zero if not close to that.

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  5. AnonymousNovember 19, 2009 at 7:42 PM

    What does the PA want? The right to tax all settler income? I think they should demand at get this. Every settler should be subject to the same taxes as any other Palestinian.

    The tax treaty with Israel should force Israel to not collect any taxes from settlers on all income generated inside Palestine.

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  6. ananNovember 19, 2009 at 7:55 PM

    <span>One idea worth consideration:  
    -Israel pays a fair price to buy all the land of the settlements  
    -settlements remain inside the Palestinian state  
    -Settlers have the option of dual Palestinian/Israeli citizenship and continuing to live, work, vote inside Palestine  
    -Security for the settlements gradually transfers to the Palestinian security forces  
    -Settlers are encouraged to join the Palestinian security forces to ensure an ethnically balanced Palestinian security force (Settlers, Christian, Sunni and atheist)  
    -Settlers are subject to all Palestinians laws and taxes, just as any other Palestinian citizen. Settlers can run in Palestinian elections. There would probably be settler Hamas alliances on censoring porn, abortions, and other values issues.  
    -Israel pays Palestine a large fee for handling Israel's crazy settler problem.  
     
    Palestine could offer this solution to Israel. I am stunned by how much even hard right Israelis fear and hate the settlers. All the commentators at the Israeli blog called the settlers "savages" and other similar terms. They all felt that removing the settlers would cost a lot of dead IDF. Some of them wanted to just pull out and encourage the Palestinians handle the settlers for them.</span>

    v asks "<span>how many Palestinian products are sitting on Israeli shelves?  I would venture to say zero if not close to that.</span>" V, Palesstine should demand no tariffs or restrictions of Palestinians exports to and investments in Israel. This demand should be made ASAP, in advance of negotiations with Israel.

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  7. thankgodimatheistNovember 19, 2009 at 10:03 PM

    <span>Anan I left you a comment on that supremacist site. Check it out. It's not on the same thread which has been closed to comments but the following one.</span>

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  8. thankgodimatheistNovember 20, 2009 at 12:04 AM

    anan you say those things but you don't seem to realise a very important issue here. If the whole international community in agreement with internationall law regard the settlements as illegal, why should the PA be more accepting and thus legitimise the settlements' production or produce by taxing them?.. Why do you want them  to be complicit in the crime that is the colonisation of an occupied territory!! Ponder that please..It's a rational question even if the subject is about Palestine.

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  9. ananNovember 20, 2009 at 8:42 AM

    This is a pickle. But I think that offering the settlers Palestinian citizenship (while demanding market price compensation for all confiscated Palestinian private property) might be the only way Palestine gets to keep the settlements inside the Palestinian state.

    If the settlers refuse this offer, then either the IDF or the Palestinian security forces will have to fight them.

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