The British government has issued an official recommendation urging business owners to mark Israeli products produced in West Bank settlements so that consumers who want to boycott such items will find it easy to identify them.
The recommendation is not binding, but this step marks an escalation in the country’s attitude toward Israel’s settlements.
The paper reports that the British consulate in Israel assures that it is opposed to any kind of boycott.
That’ll work. Just mark the products and consumers can decide for themselves if they will buy products made from stolen property. All the British need to do now is make that a regulation.
I hope they put a skull and crossbones label on it, like they do with cigarettes in some countries =P
They could put one of those logos from the IDF t-shirts showing a Palestinian baby in some crosshairs and a mother crying over the body. Would be far more demonstrative.
Now that is genius.
In Italy, the warnings on cigarettes (in bold typeface, taking up at least a third of the packet surface) read: Smoking Kills. Effortlessly adaptable.
Of course the British government opposes boycotts, because they are unproductive, unhelpful, uncivilised, and above all unprofitable. It’s all about giving “consumers” the illusion that they have any real information about the things they are conditioned to buy. Free hand free market free Palestine.
Where would the world be t0day if the USA had not stepped in during WW1, or WW2? Does anyone doubt the ethnic and/or ethnic /and or religious nature of this force? It deserves nothing more than cracker jokes? I lost many members of my family in these efforts. I myself made myself vulnerable. And you, Dick Witty?
Of course Israel will object to any kind of its boycott – because being the “holocaust victims” – only they have the right to escape the law even if one of them is convicted for having sexual relation with a minor – You know what I mean.
Interestingly, Israelis ran a campaign to boycott Turkish coffee and resorts – for Turkish TV showing Israeli brutalities during the 23-day invasion of Gazzah Strip.
Israelis to boycott Turkish resorts and coffee
link to rehmat1.wordpress.com
There’s also a movement to get the British government to recognise the Palestinian state. At first I thought it was unlikely, but the I looked at all the states that had already recognised Palestine and it included pretty much every major state bar those in Western Europe and North America.
The US is a lost cause, but some EU states are twitching to punish Israel for Gaza and the aftermath.
Negotiation is the only basis by which peace will be achieved. Otherwise the chaos that followed the stupidly orchestrated removal from Gaza will be repeated.
That is a path to endless war, much further along than endless preparation for war, or endless suppression.
Funny. If you follow interviews from the offices of the Israeli PM’s staff preceding the Gaza withdrawal, you’ll find that they got exactly what they wanted.
link to haaretz.com
So, Witty… how is negotiation even possible with the Israeli government when every policy they have developed is formulated to disrupt the peace process?
No peace negotiation will advance so long as Israeli settlements continue to expand; this is obvious to anyone but a moron or hypocrite.
Ooh, I like where you’re going with this, Britain. Looks like the embryo of a strategy based on actual pressure more than platitudes.