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Spain: Pro-Palestinian activists attack Israeli businessmen

Conference held by Spain-Israel Chamber of Commerce at Madrid's Autonomous University cut short after 200 protestors burst into hall chanting, 'Murderers, get out of Gaza';
one Israeli lightly wounded when police vehicle stoned

Five Israeli businessmen were attacked on Monday by pro-Palestinian activists during a conference at the Autonomous University of Madrid.

During the incident, stones and paint were thrown at the businessmen. No serious injuries were reported, but one Israeli sustained light wounds to his head.


The conference, which was cut short due to the violence, was initiated by the university and the Spain-Israel Chamber of Commerce.


Some 200 anti-Israel protestors burst into the hall and prevented the opening of panel discussions.

According to Spanish media, the organizers, who feared acts of protest over last week's deadly Israeli commando raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla, changed the conference's venue at the last minute. However, the activists discovered the new location and stormed in while chanting, "Murderers, murderers. Get out of Gaza" and "Freedom to the Palestinian people."

Madrid police were alerted to the scene and escorted the Israeli businessmen out of the university. The protestors threw stones, paint and other objects at the police patrol cars as they were heading out of the institution. One of the Israelis, Emefcy CEO Eytan Levy, was hit by a rock that shattered the windshield of one of the police vehicles. Levy was treated at scene but asked not to be evacuated to a hospital.

Madrid police launched an investigation into the incident, but no arrests have been made as of yet. Most of the rioters were Muslim, police said.


The Israeli embassy in the Spanish capital condemned the incident. One official described the anti-Israeli atmosphere in Madrid.


"The embassy was egged earlier in the week. Most of the protestors are of Arab-Palestinian descent. During Operation Cast Lead stones were thrown at the embassy. The situation in Madrid is not easy," he said.

[link to www.ynetnews.com]
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And so it begins!

SEE ISRAEL WHAT YOU'RE DOING?

Of course YOU LOVE THAT since more jews around the world will come to your scummy country because they think it's safe for the jews there.
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And so it begins!

SEE ISRAEL WHAT YOU'RE DOING?

Of course YOU LOVE THAT since more jews around the world will come to your scummy country because they think it's safe for the jews there.
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MORONS!

I guess we should start attacking anyone who works for oil companies.


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Total Protonic Reversal...
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...and there is much, much more where that came from Israeli´s.

ISRAEL WILL NO LONGER DO BUSINESS IN SPAIN

Get the Fuck out of Palestina.
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If this is the only way to help Palestinians regain their home land, then this is fine.
Stone the occupators!!!

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If this is the only way to help Palestinians regain their home land, then this is fine.
Stone the occupators!!!

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We tried peacefully for years now.

No more.

A full boycott of all Israeli products will be in effect as of June 15. Anyone ordering Israeli products after that will be spoken too.

Mercadona and Carrefour already are well aware of this.
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Spain: Pro-Palestinian activists attack Israeli businessmen

Conference held by Spain-Israel Chamber of Commerce at Madrid's Autonomous University cut short after 200 protestors burst into hall chanting, 'Murderers, get out of Gaza';
one Israeli lightly wounded when police vehicle stoned

Five Israeli businessmen were attacked on Monday by pro-Palestinian activists during a conference at the Autonomous University of Madrid.

During the incident, stones and paint were thrown at the businessmen. No serious injuries were reported, but one Israeli sustained light wounds to his head.


The conference, which was cut short due to the violence, was initiated by the university and the Spain-Israel Chamber of Commerce.


Some 200 anti-Israel protestors burst into the hall and prevented the opening of panel discussions.

According to Spanish media, the organizers, who feared acts of protest over last week's deadly Israeli commando raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla, changed the conference's venue at the last minute. However, the activists discovered the new location and stormed in while chanting, "Murderers, murderers. Get out of Gaza" and "Freedom to the Palestinian people."

Madrid police were alerted to the scene and escorted the Israeli businessmen out of the university. The protestors threw stones, paint and other objects at the police patrol cars as they were heading out of the institution. One of the Israelis, Emefcy CEO Eytan Levy, was hit by a rock that shattered the windshield of one of the police vehicles. Levy was treated at scene but asked not to be evacuated to a hospital.

Madrid police launched an investigation into the incident, but no arrests have been made as of yet. Most of the rioters were Muslim, police said.


The Israeli embassy in the Spanish capital condemned the incident. One official described the anti-Israeli atmosphere in Madrid.


"The embassy was egged earlier in the week. Most of the protestors are of Arab-Palestinian descent. During Operation Cast Lead stones were thrown at the embassy. The situation in Madrid is not easy," he said.

[link to www.ynetnews.com]
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I guess the muslims really are taking over Europe. Tragic.
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I guess the muslims really are taking over Europe. Tragic.
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Muslims? In Spain?

You must be joking.

We hate Muslims even more than Israeli.

We even celebrate kicking them out after centuries of occupation during the Moros y Christianos festival.

Full focus is on Israel and boy will they have a hard time in Spain the next few months.

We don´t want them.
They have no right to Palestina.

Back to Poland & Germany? O wait - they don´t want them either.

What to do - what to do

Go to America! Yay. Land of the dual passport holders...

They will be EVER so welcome there right?
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We don´t want them.
They have no right to Palestina.

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:flo26:maximc:IsraelFl: Spain will pay a heavy price. Rev 6:6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and [see] thou hurt not the oil and the wine....and that's just the beginning.
Zec 12:3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
Psa 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, [and] all the nations that forget God.
Jer 6:2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate [woman].
STOCK UP NOW. You should have at least 6 months worth of basics for every member of your household. Stay away from crowds when trouble starts, do not forget water storage, tobacco is worth more than gold or silver, and be kind to hungry children.
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You need to be very careful throwing stones these days.
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We don´t want them.
They have no right to Palestina.


:flo26::maximc::IsraelFl: Spain will pay a heavy price. Rev 6:6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and [see] thou hurt not the oil and the wine....and that's just the beginning.
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just love all your half naked girls you spread around, very christard!
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Damn Spanish Inquisition!
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I will fight for Israel to the death! Long live Israel!
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Give the jews and muslims a simple choice:

Conform to western civilized standards and culture, or be thrown out of the respective countries.

Law is above religion, and freedom is above the attempt to conceal and uppress.

Forgive the numerous errors in english, you get the point, so have your focus there.
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lmao lmao lmao
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I guess the muslims really are taking over Europe. Tragic.


Muslims? In Spain?

You must be joking.

We hate Muslims even more than Israeli.

We even celebrate kicking them out after centuries of occupation during the Moros y Christianos festival.

Full focus is on Israel and boy will they have a hard time in Spain the next few months.

We don´t want them.
They have no right to Palestina.

Back to Poland & Germany? O wait - they don´t want them either.

What to do - what to do

Go to America! Yay. Land of the dual passport holders...

They will be EVER so welcome there right?
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Yes but you are known for being anti-semitic, socialist fucks with nothing better to do then try to beat the crap out of five Israeli bussiness men. Go ahead and boycott Israel, and see Americans boycott Spain. Obama the idiot may bow to islamic madhi-madness, but Americans won't put up with your bullshit, and know this spaniard, Israel will do much better in this then you.
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Conform to western civilized standards and culture, or be thrown out of the respective countries.

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cowgal Humph! Denmark, the ultimate in crappy little woo woo countries. Aren't you just entering dip two of a double dip depression you dipstick.
Zec 12:3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
Psa 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, [and] all the nations that forget God.
Jer 6:2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate [woman].
STOCK UP NOW. You should have at least 6 months worth of basics for every member of your household. Stay away from crowds when trouble starts, do not forget water storage, tobacco is worth more than gold or silver, and be kind to hungry children.
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...and there is much, much more where that came from Israeli´s.

ISRAEL WILL NO LONGER DO BUSINESS IN SPAIN

Get the Fuck out of Palestina.
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You are a fool!
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I will fight for Israel to the death! Long live Israel!
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your not fighting shit.

couch potato. 1rof1
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I will fight for Israel to the death! Long live Israel!
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Amen AC. These are not only "Jew" haters but haters of YHWH and Yeshua...and headed for much pain and suffering unless they repent of the evil in their hearts.
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...and there is much, much more where that came from Israeli´s.

ISRAEL WILL NO LONGER DO BUSINESS IN SPAIN

Get the Fuck out of Palestina.
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so because of the boycott thing you mentioned should be done..
I began to look for things israel exports...when I came across this article..I didnt know how Israel survives..
chemicals, computer software, military equipment..some fruit..and Diamonds........:




SOUTH AFRICA
Avocados, Diamonds at Core of Anti-Israel Trade Campaign
Moyiga Nduru

JOHANNESBURG, Jan 26 (IPS) - A call from a South African trade unionist for national supermarket chains to stop importing avocado from Israel could ultimately lead to the banning of all imports from the Jewish state, if unions and human rights activists have their way.

Katishi Masemola, secretary general of the Food and Allied Workers' Union (FAWU), told South Africa's supermarket chains earlier this week that Israel produces avocado under "slave-type conditions". He says the International Labour Organisation (ILO) forbids the use of child labour which, he claims, Israel is employing on avocado farms.

IPS contacted the Israeli embassy in Pretoria, the capital of South Africa, for comment. It did not return IPS's call.

Masemola told IPS in an interview: "Israel is occupying parts of Palestine and it's frustrating its moving towards statehood. In those occupied territories, avocados are produced under harsh slave-type conditions. Israeli farmers hire Palestinian children and pay them peanuts."

"The amount of avocado the South African supermarket chains import from Israel is negligible. It's just two percent of the total avocado they procure from overseas and locally," he said. "The supermarkets can do without it."

Derek Donkin, general manager of the South African Avocado Growers' Association (SAAGA), said South Africa produces 100,000 tonnes of avocado a year. "Between 40,000 and 45,000 tonnes are exported. The rest is sold for local consumption," he told IPS from his organisation's headquarters in Tzaneen, a four-hour drive from South Africa's commercial hub of Johannesburg.

"South Africa imports a small amount of avocado during off season (November-February) when we don't produce avocado. Many of the avocados come from Spain," he said.

In a Jan. 16 letter to Shaheed Mohamed, the coordinator of the South Africa branch of the Sanctions Against Israel Coalition, Brian Weyers, marketing director for Shoprite Checkers, a leading supermarket chain, said the Shoprite Group imported only 1.12 percent of 6.8 million avocados which it sold in 2006 from Israel.

"We bought 93.85 percent of the avocados locally and imported 5.03 percent from Spain and Kenya," he said. Weyers said the fruit was out of season and that was why they were forced to resort to alternative sources.

"In the instance of imported avocados, these were bought from a company in Israel, Carmel Agrexco, whom we are assured also has many Arab growers supplying fruits to them for export," Weyers said.

"We must also point out that Shoprite is not the only company in South Africa that sells Israeli produce. Today we purchase Israeli minneolas, grapefruit, naartjies, and persimmons in most of our competitors' stores in Cape Town," he said.

When IPS began making inquiries, it found that the fruit debate was only the tip of the iceberg. "It's not only avocado. The main item that concerns us is diamond. Israel imports diamond from South Africa; polishes it and cuts it before selling it back to South Africa at almost ten times its original value. It does the same with gold," Mohamed told IPS by phone from Cape Town.

"Israel imports diamond worth three billion rand (about 430 million dollars) from South Africa a year. Israel doesn't produce a single diamond. Yet 30 percent of its GDP (gross domestic product) comes from diamond. The diamond could be polished and cut in South Africa to provide jobs for the estimated 40 percent unemployed South Africans," he said.

In the past 12 months, De Beers - the leading diamond mining company in South Africa - retrenched 1,200 workers out of its over 10,000 workers, according to Rivonia Mura Khosi, a union leader at the De Beers mine in Kimberly, South Africa.

"On top of that they want to retrench 400 more workers. Next week we are going to meet the management over the issue. If we can save the retrenchment, the better for us," he told IPS in an interview. "If not, then we'll try to negotiate a good package for them. It will be hard."

Slowly, the anti-Israeli coalition is growing in South Africa. "We haven't made the call to impose sanctions against Israel yet. We know Israel commits atrocities against Palestinians. But we are moving there. It's just a matter of months," Masemola said.

"We are making a call to mobilise South African workers. We want to all diamonds from Israel to be treated as conflict diamonds. We urge people not to buy diamonds from Israel," said Mohamed.

An international campaign targeting Israeli crafted diamonds is planned for February in South Africa, Britain, Canada, Australia and Ireland.

For its part, the De Beers Group denies any wrongdoing. "100 percent of De Beers' diamonds are certified as conflict-free. Currently, less than one percent of the world's diamonds are conflict diamonds. While today more than 99 percent of rough diamonds are certified to be from conflict-free sources the diamond industry has a zero tolerance policy towards conflict diamonds and will not rest until conflict diamonds are completely eradicated," it said on its website.

"While Sierra Leone is now at peace, currently Liberia, Republic of Congo (also known as Congo-Brazzaville) and the Ivory Coast are under UN sanctions," it added.

Under the 2003 Kimberly Process certification scheme, which groups 71 countries, diamonds must be conflict-free. The process was prompted by bloody conflicts in diamond-rich African countries, which have claimed hundreds of thousands of lives.

In Africa, Mohamed's coalition operates in Morocco and Egypt. South Africa hosts the only one, so far known, in sub-Saharan Africa. Mohamed's four colleagues attended the Jan. 20-25 World Social Forum (WSF) in Nairobi, Kenya, where they organised a demonstration against Israel.

Mohamed said the coalition is also targeting South Africa for selling aircraft and helicopter parts to Israel. He said Israel uses helicopter gunship against Palestinians. "By implication, we are involved in the murder of innocent Palestinian civilians by Israeli soldiers," he said.

The South African government, which has not imposed sanctions, nor introduced boycott regulations, on Israeli goods, is perceived to be pro-Palestine, given the history between the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO). The former apartheid regime worked closely with the Jewish state.
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Yes but you are known for being anti-semitic, socialist fucks with nothing better to do then try to beat the crap out of five Israeli bussiness men. Go ahead and boycott Israel, and see Americans boycott Spain. Obama the idiot may bow to islamic madhi-madness, but Americans won't put up with your bullshit, and know this spaniard, Israel will do much better in this then you.
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O RLY?

And what - pray tell - would we ever want from America?

Burger King and KFC?

They already FAILED here and EPICALLY so.

We do not need Americans nor their "products", and certainly not Israelis in our proud country.

We had anarchistic rule here for years, and fascism too and guess what?

WE DID FINE

If push comes to shove WE WILL BE FINE AGAIN.
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...and there is much, much more where that came from Israeli´s.

ISRAEL WILL NO LONGER DO BUSINESS IN SPAIN

Get the Fuck out of Palestina.


You are a fool!
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That´s why we rush in.

Get it? Fado Freddy?
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Go ahead and boycott Israel, and see Americans boycott Spain.
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This American won't boycott Spain, nor will many more. Things are changing, israel is isolating itself with unbridled arrogance.
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...and there is much, much more where that came from Israeli´s.

ISRAEL WILL NO LONGER DO BUSINESS IN SPAIN

Get the Fuck out of Palestina.




so because of the boycott thing you mentioned should be done..
I began to look for things israel exports...when I came across this article..I didnt know how Israel survives..
chemicals, computer software, military equipment..some fruit..and Diamonds........:




SOUTH AFRICA
Avocados, Diamonds at Core of Anti-Israel Trade Campaign
Moyiga Nduru

JOHANNESBURG, Jan 26 (IPS) - A call from a South African trade unionist for national supermarket chains to stop importing avocado from Israel could ultimately lead to the banning of all imports from the Jewish state, if unions and human rights activists have their way.

Katishi Masemola, secretary general of the Food and Allied Workers' Union (FAWU), told South Africa's supermarket chains earlier this week that Israel produces avocado under "slave-type conditions". He says the International Labour Organisation (ILO) forbids the use of child labour which, he claims, Israel is employing on avocado farms.

IPS contacted the Israeli embassy in Pretoria, the capital of South Africa, for comment. It did not return IPS's call.

Masemola told IPS in an interview: "Israel is occupying parts of Palestine and it's frustrating its moving towards statehood. In those occupied territories, avocados are produced under harsh slave-type conditions. Israeli farmers hire Palestinian children and pay them peanuts."

"The amount of avocado the South African supermarket chains import from Israel is negligible. It's just two percent of the total avocado they procure from overseas and locally," he said. "The supermarkets can do without it."

Derek Donkin, general manager of the South African Avocado Growers' Association (SAAGA), said South Africa produces 100,000 tonnes of avocado a year. "Between 40,000 and 45,000 tonnes are exported. The rest is sold for local consumption," he told IPS from his organisation's headquarters in Tzaneen, a four-hour drive from South Africa's commercial hub of Johannesburg.

"South Africa imports a small amount of avocado during off season (November-February) when we don't produce avocado. Many of the avocados come from Spain," he said.

In a Jan. 16 letter to Shaheed Mohamed, the coordinator of the South Africa branch of the Sanctions Against Israel Coalition, Brian Weyers, marketing director for Shoprite Checkers, a leading supermarket chain, said the Shoprite Group imported only 1.12 percent of 6.8 million avocados which it sold in 2006 from Israel.

"We bought 93.85 percent of the avocados locally and imported 5.03 percent from Spain and Kenya," he said. Weyers said the fruit was out of season and that was why they were forced to resort to alternative sources.

"In the instance of imported avocados, these were bought from a company in Israel, Carmel Agrexco, whom we are assured also has many Arab growers supplying fruits to them for export," Weyers said.

"We must also point out that Shoprite is not the only company in South Africa that sells Israeli produce. Today we purchase Israeli minneolas, grapefruit, naartjies, and persimmons in most of our competitors' stores in Cape Town," he said.

When IPS began making inquiries, it found that the fruit debate was only the tip of the iceberg. "It's not only avocado. The main item that concerns us is diamond. Israel imports diamond from South Africa; polishes it and cuts it before selling it back to South Africa at almost ten times its original value. It does the same with gold," Mohamed told IPS by phone from Cape Town.

"Israel imports diamond worth three billion rand (about 430 million dollars) from South Africa a year. Israel doesn't produce a single diamond. Yet 30 percent of its GDP (gross domestic product) comes from diamond. The diamond could be polished and cut in South Africa to provide jobs for the estimated 40 percent unemployed South Africans," he said.

In the past 12 months, De Beers - the leading diamond mining company in South Africa - retrenched 1,200 workers out of its over 10,000 workers, according to Rivonia Mura Khosi, a union leader at the De Beers mine in Kimberly, South Africa.

"On top of that they want to retrench 400 more workers. Next week we are going to meet the management over the issue. If we can save the retrenchment, the better for us," he told IPS in an interview. "If not, then we'll try to negotiate a good package for them. It will be hard."

Slowly, the anti-Israeli coalition is growing in South Africa. "We haven't made the call to impose sanctions against Israel yet. We know Israel commits atrocities against Palestinians. But we are moving there. It's just a matter of months," Masemola said.

"We are making a call to mobilise South African workers. We want to all diamonds from Israel to be treated as conflict diamonds. We urge people not to buy diamonds from Israel," said Mohamed.

An international campaign targeting Israeli crafted diamonds is planned for February in South Africa, Britain, Canada, Australia and Ireland.

For its part, the De Beers Group denies any wrongdoing. "100 percent of De Beers' diamonds are certified as conflict-free. Currently, less than one percent of the world's diamonds are conflict diamonds. While today more than 99 percent of rough diamonds are certified to be from conflict-free sources the diamond industry has a zero tolerance policy towards conflict diamonds and will not rest until conflict diamonds are completely eradicated," it said on its website.

"While Sierra Leone is now at peace, currently Liberia, Republic of Congo (also known as Congo-Brazzaville) and the Ivory Coast are under UN sanctions," it added.

Under the 2003 Kimberly Process certification scheme, which groups 71 countries, diamonds must be conflict-free. The process was prompted by bloody conflicts in diamond-rich African countries, which have claimed hundreds of thousands of lives.

In Africa, Mohamed's coalition operates in Morocco and Egypt. South Africa hosts the only one, so far known, in sub-Saharan Africa. Mohamed's four colleagues attended the Jan. 20-25 World Social Forum (WSF) in Nairobi, Kenya, where they organised a demonstration against Israel.

Mohamed said the coalition is also targeting South Africa for selling aircraft and helicopter parts to Israel. He said Israel uses helicopter gunship against Palestinians. "By implication, we are involved in the murder of innocent Palestinian civilians by Israeli soldiers," he said.

The South African government, which has not imposed sanctions, nor introduced boycott regulations, on Israeli goods, is perceived to be pro-Palestine, given the history between the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO). The former apartheid regime worked closely with the Jewish state.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 788508



MIRA AMIGO

Es muy simple:

TODOS LOS PRODUCTOS QUE EMPIEZAN CON CODIGO DE BARRA EAN 729.... SON DE ISRAEL.

Ni lo compras ni lo utilizas.

EAN BARCODE STARTING WITH 729...

Watchlist:

MAS Y MAS
MERCADONA
CARREFOUR
GRUPO EROSKI
CAPABRO/CONSUM

We demand to take 729 products of shelves or will shop elsewhere... Watch local news channels!

We do not need their crap.





GLP