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Dec 7 2023

Debunking pathetic boycott Israel campaigns

So propaganda like this I see quite a lot. This was posted by someone from Denmark.

Its been shown both in the Muslim world, or by the extreme left and Muslims living in the west.

Its highlighting that a group of well known brands are giving money to Israel, and by stopping business to them will “help the cause of Palestine”

Lets dismantle this.

Mcdonalds. They are an American company of course. There’s Mcds in Israel, who employ Jewish and Arab staff. And not in the Palestinian territories but a lot of Arab Muslim nations like Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Jordan and more. They operate as a franchise. I don’t recommend you support McDonalds in the Middle East, as there are thousands of smaller restaurant businesses run by Jews and Arabs that are loads better.

KFC. This is an American company, also operates as a franchise. This opened in Israel some years ago. Then they shut. Not because of political reasons. They just didn’t do very well as there are plenty of local fast food places.

Coca Cola. I wrote on this a little while back. You can get Hebrew branded Coke made in Bnei Barak (Israeli city) or Arabic brand coke made in Ramallah (Palestinian city) Its made under licence and sold most parts of the world. If you want you could get some kind of generic cola drink instead.

I’ve not been to Ramallah. But its were the Palestine authority government is for Fatah (not the same as Hamas who run Gaza) This picture above is from Ramallah. On the left some coke is being delivered in a van (Palestinian cars have white or green licence plates, Israelis have yellow) On the right, there is a big poster with some Arab lads drinking Coke.

Starbucks. US company. Tried running in Israel and it failed. Too much competition. Israelis would rather support their own cafes. I think they do ok in UAE and Saudi though.

Nestle. They are based in Switzerland. I think their products are sold in Israel, but Israelis tend to buy their own home grown food.

Cadburys. This is a British company started in Birmingham by a Christian family. I’ve never seen Cadburys chocolate in Israel, except in Arab shops where it had Arabic language versions made in Egypt and imported.

Israel makes a lot of technology products. HP, Apple, Intel, Motorola, Cisco, Qualcomm, Google and Microsoft have significant research and development done in Israel. As well as indigenous tech companies like Waze, Amdocs, Monday.com, NICE systems are Israel start ups.

If you want to boycott Israel you will have to throw away your favourite gadgets.

Like it or not. Israel is here to stay. Israel’s Messiah is also coming back to Jerusalem one day. Stop hating and get used to it.

Aug 10 2014

Evil reincarnated from the past

Haven’t felt like doing much writing, despite much going on the middle east and my new life in London.

I honestly can’t remember when the news was more depressing than this, with war between Israel and Gaza, Iraq and Syria having their own citizens murdered, victims mostly Christian.   Meanwhile naive one-sided white middle class people who don’t know much about middle east history put on kefiyah scarfs and join pro-Palestinian rallies with Muslim people in UK and Europe, and make a nuisance of themselves outside Tescos, but choose to ignore the bigger picture of the often turbulent middle east.

“Boycott Israel”  says your average liberal, leftist, vegan for Palestine, from their iPhone which contains memory chips and 3G technology developed in the only democracy in the middle east.  During the time of the Nazis, Hitler’s Germany had a similar idea to boycott the Jews of Europe.

This got me thinking about the names of today’s enemies of decent civilisation.

HAMAS the terrorism group who run the Gaza strip, their name comprises of an acronym in Arabic.   When transliterated into Hebrew, these five letters are pronounced “חמס” the word for violence.

ISIS is the group currently wiping out the Iraqi Christians at the moment, which bizarrely also a pagan god of Egypt long before Islam.

I was reading a while back also that some churches in Norway were set of fire by members of some heavy metal bands.   Most heavy metal music I have heard has a lot of lyrics about revenge, bitterness, anger, darkness and hatred towards God.   I want to Finland about 11 years ago, the Nordic countries seem to be the metal capital of the world.  Some of the more extreme metal bands contain lyrics and culture related to Norse gods like Thor.     This got me thinking this part of the dominant religious system in this region over a thousand years ago.

Its ironic how evil can be around in society for millennia only to come back with a similar legacy that the world has forgot.