So what will Israel do? Start bombing ice cream factories? Send out one of their assassination teams to kill Ben and Jerry? It seems to be a very big threat to them the BDS movement is growing.

Israel will ‘act aggressively’ over Ben & Jerry’s ban, PM says
Bennett calls move by company to stop selling its ice cream in occupied Palestinian territories an ‘anti-Israel step’.


Ben & Jerry's announced it will stop selling its ice cream in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, saying its sale 'is inconsistent with our values' [Ahmad Gharabli /AFP]
20 Jul 2021
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told the head of Unilever on Tuesday that Israel will “act aggressively” against Ben & Jerry’s over the subsidiary’s decision to stop selling its ice cream in the Israeli-occupied territories of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

British consumer goods conglomerate Unilever acquired the Vermont-based ice cream company in 2000. Ben & Jerry’s said in a statement on Monday that it had informed its longstanding licensee – responsible for manufacturing and distributing the ice cream in Israel – that it will not renew the licence agreement when it expires at the end of 2022.

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Bennett’s office said in a statement that he spoke with Unilever CEO Alan Jope about what he called Ben & Jerry’s “clearly anti-Israel step,” adding that the move would have “serious consequences, legal and otherwise, and that it will act aggressively against all boycott actions directed against its citizens”.

The Ben & Jerry’s announcement was one of the highest-profile corporate rebukes of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, territories Israel captured in the 1967 war. Most of the international community considers these settlements illegal under international law and an impediment to peace with the Palestinians.

Approximately 700,000 Israelis now live in settlements – about 500,000 in the occupied West Bank and 200,000 in East Jerusalem. Israel considers the entirety of Jerusalem its capital, while East Jerusalem is seen as the capital of a future Palestinian state as part of a two-state solution.

Ben & Jerry’s said in its announcement that the sale of its ice cream in territories sought by the Palestinians for an independent state was “inconsistent with our values”.

The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement said on Monday it “warmly welcomes” Ben & Jerry’s decision but called on the company to “end all operations in apartheid Israel”.


“We hope Ben and Jerry’s has understood that, in harmony with its social justice commitments, there can be no business as usual in apartheid Israel,” BDS said in a statement.

BDS movement
@BDSmovement
Following years of #BDS campaigns @benandjerrys has announced it will end sales of its ice cream in Israel's illegal settlements on stolen Palestinian land. We warmly welcome their decision but call on Ben & Jerry's to end all operations in apartheid Israel. #BDSsuccess

10:53 AM · Jul 19, 2021

Israel’s foreign ministry criticised the decision on Monday as “a surrender to ongoing and aggressive pressure from extreme anti-Israel groups” and said the company was cooperating with “economic terrorism”.

Avi Zinger, CEO and licensee of Ben & Jerry’s Israel, told public broadcaster Kan on Tuesday that the parent company had long pressured him to cease distribution in the Israeli occupied territories, but he refused because it would violate Israeli law.

He called the Ben & Jerry’s decision to not extend its licence “the biggest accomplishment” of the BDS movement that advocates boycotts, divestment and sanctions of Israeli institutions and businesses in what it says is a non-violent campaign against Israeli abuses against Palestinians./';

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/20/israel-will-act-aggressively-over-ben-jerrys-ban-pm-says

 

Israelis are getting all the Ben and Jerry's they want, more in fact now that Ben and Jerry's isnt selling to palistinians...and as for bds...read below McDuff


Ben & Jerry’s joins long list of failed 'boycotts' of Israel - analysis
The desire to boycott Israel has existed since the country was created in 1948, but what is left of the “boycott” movement today appears to mostly be some privileged activists in the West.

In a confusing statement posted online this week, the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream company said: “We have a longstanding partnership with our licensee, who manufactures Ben & Jerry’s ice cream in Israel and distributes it in the region. We have been working to change this, and so we have informed our licensee that we will not renew the license agreement when it expires at the end of next year.”

The company said, however, it “will stay in Israel through a different arrangement.”

It remains to be seen if this is corporate virtue-signaling or if anything actually changes. Will people have to smuggle ice cream across the Green Line? What will happen to the treasured flavors for Palestinians who like the pints?

With none of this clear, and people being asked to continue to support the local company that makes the product, the only real effect so far has been hand-wringing on social media. Is this decision a win for the movement that seeks to boycott Israel, and what has that movement accomplished over the past decades?

The desire to boycott Israel has existed since the country was created in 1948. It has manifested itself in numerous ways, especially the refusal of a number of countries to recognize the Jewish state. They have done various things over the years, such as try to criminalize trade with Israel or even using oil production as a weapon to threaten the US after the Yom Kippur War in 1973, complaining about Western support for Israel.

This appeared effective in some ways during the Cold War. The so-called “nonaligned” movement was often hostile to Israel, which even lost friends in places in Africa and lost Iran as a friend after the Iranian Revolution in 1979.

However, for the most part, that serious attempt to boycott and even blockade Israel and to influence Western chanceries failed after the end of the Cold War.
IN 2016, Israel and Russia marked 25 years since the restoration of relations, and in 2017, Israel and India celebrated 25 years of relations. New normalization deals with the Gulf, called the Abraham Accords, and new relations with Morocco and Sudan illustrate that Israel is far from isolated.

How would that help Israel? It is precisely because the Jewish state is one of the most successful countries in the world, a global partner for trade and investment producing world-transforming technology, and some wonder whether they can pressure Israel’s government to move on peace with the Palestinians using some kind of boycott.

 

I make a point to buy stuff from Israel at every opportunity get.

 

Hay Bumbles, wanna something for your latest attempt, look up Roger Waters, he's a big anti Israel guy, you'll love him, ....you could even tie into Pink Floyd, trouble is...I dont like Floyd, I'm a Dead head and I doubt they could be of much use

 

What's the big deal??? Ben and Jerry's ice cream? Who cares? Overpriced frozen cream/milk with sugar....

The next scoop of Ben and Jerry's ice cream I eat will be the first....

 

World Leaders’ Phone Numbers Appear on List of Surveillance Targets for Israeli Spyware
FIT FOR A KING

Shannon Vavra
National Security Reporter

Updated Jul. 20, 2021 2:31PM ET / Published Jul. 20, 2021 2:09PM ET

John Thys/Pool/AFP via Getty
The phone numbers of current and former heads of state appear on a list of digital surveillance targets of Israeli spyware giant NSO Group clients, according to a bombshell investigation into the company. Phone numbers belonging to a king, three presidents, and 10 prime ministers are among those on the list, which contains about 50,000 numbers, according to the investigation, which was conducted by a consortium of news organizations and security researchers. French President Emmanuel Macron, Iraqi President Barham Salih, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, and the King of Morocco, Mohammed VI, appear on the list. Seven former prime ministers’ numbers appear on the list but they were in office when they were added to the list, the report notes.

It isn’t clear whether NSO Group clients targeted or successfully hacked into these individuals’ phones. But the presence of their numbers on the list, which includes other smartphones NSO Group clients have successfully targeted, including those of journalists and dissidents, is cause for alarm, according to the investigation. The Paris prosecutor’s office said Tuesday that it is opening an investigation into NSO Group.

An NSO spokesperson did not immediately return a request for comment about the list, but NSO Group has said in recent days that the investigation’s claims are baseless. In a statement to The Washington Post, an attorney representing the firm acknowledged the existence of the list that includes targets but said it “has many legitimate and entirely proper uses having nothing to do with surveillance or with NSO.”

Read it at The Washington Post

https://www.thedailybeast.com/world...s-for-israeli-spyware-firm-nso-group?ref=home

 

israeli spyware now..what happens to your precious palistinians, not serving your purpose, Iran lost your interest so israelie spyware and ice cream is your thing now,

 

Israel-Palestine conflict looms large as Biden meets Jordan King
Two months after Gaza ceasefire, US is focused on preventing further crisis without a long-term strategy, say experts.


President Joe Biden is meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah II at the White House on Monday and the Israel-Palestine conflict is expected to be on the agenda [Jonathan Ernst/Reuters]
By William Roberts
19 Jul 2021
Washington, DC – The Israel-Palestine conflict is expected to take up much of the discussion between United States President Joe Biden and Jordan’s King Abdullah II when the Jordanian leader visits the White House on Monday for the first time since Biden was elected.

The meeting comes two months after a shaky ceasefire took hold between Israelis and Palestinian faction Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, and after a new Israeli government led by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett emerged in June.

But while Israel and Palestine will be on the agenda in Washington, experts say Biden is not prepared to invest the political capital needed to help Israelis and Palestinians reach a solution to the decades-long conflict. Instead, they argue the administration is seeking to keep a lid on the conflict amid other, more pressing foreign and domestic challenges.

“Biden looks at this issue as a menace. And his instinct is stuck in another era of Democratic politics where you just don’t challenge Israel’s policies,” Shibley Telhami, a professor and pollster at the University of Maryland, told Al Jazeera.

“Whereas the Democratic Party’s public opinion wants to have criticism of Israel,” Telhami told Al Jazeera.

‘Two-state solution’
For decades, the US has been a staunch defender of Israel in the international arena such as the United Nations Security Council, while also providing the Israeli government with billions in military assistance.

The US currently provides $3.8bn in annual military aid to Israel and Biden has promised Israeli leaders an additional $1bn to replenish the Iron Dome missile defence system and $750m in precision-guided bombs and missiles.

As the Gaza war was under way in May, Biden and his team scrambled to gain a ceasefire with Egypt’s help and in the process, the US president leaned on the prospect of a “two-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – a pillar of US policy in the Middle East.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken mentioned the ‘two-state solution’ in a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on May 25 [Majdi Mohammed/Pool via Reuters]
“We still need a two-state solution. It is the only answer,” Biden told reporters at a White House press conference with South Korea President Ban Ki-Moon.

But many Palestinians say Israeli settlement-building in the occupied Palestinian territories has made a two-state solution impossible, and the promise of negotiations to that end are cover to maintain the status quo.

Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC, also said Biden’s reference to a two-state solution “doesn’t mean anything, unless you’re prepared to tether your words to a set of policies designed to make that a reality”.

“Rhetoric without consequence is rhetoric without consequence,” Miller told Al Jazeera.

Re-engaging Palestinians
Biden and his team say they are focused on the immediate imperative of re-engaging with Palestinians and avoiding confrontation with the new Bennett government as Washington seeks detente with Iran in stalled nuclear talks.

In May, Biden promised to marshal an international effort to help rebuild Gaza, called on Israel to treat “Israeli citizens, whether they be Arab or Jew” equally, and demanded a stop to the forced expulsions of Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem.

Meanwhile, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Israel and Palestinian Affairs Hady Amr was in the region last week meeting with Israeli and Palestinian Authority officials as well as civil society groups. The Biden administration has promised to reopen a US consulate in the Palestinian territories and Amr asked Israel to ease financial restrictions on the Palestinian Authority.

“We are re-engaging and building back that partnership with the Palestinian people,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said on July 14, repeating a phrase that has become a mantra for Biden officials.

President Joe Biden meets with Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin at the White House in Washington, DC on June 28 [Kevin Lamarque/Reuters]
“Our policy is one that seeks to achieve equal measures of safety, of security, of prosperity, and, importantly, of dignity for Israelis and Palestinians alike,” Price said.

Biden met at the White House in June with outgoing Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid in Rome. Biden has issued an invitation to Bennett to visit the White House in August, but no date has been released for that visit.

“It’s a policy of what I call the three Cs,” Miller said. “Number one, contain differences so there is no conflict, there’s no public soap opera. Number two, cooperate whenever you can and number three, avoid issues that are likely to be unbelievably contentious and provocative.”

‘No interest’
For Palestinians, bringing about equal measures of security for Israelis and Palestinians is not realistic without challenging the system of Israeli apartheid, said Ahmad Abuznaid, executive director of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights.

“It took the killing of over 250 Palestinians for President Biden to just say ‘ceasefire’,” Abuznaid told Al Jazeera.


“Ceasefire doesn’t stop apartheid, ceasefire doesn’t stop the expulsion, ceasefire doesn’t stop the checkpoints, ceasefire hasn’t stopped the arrests, the oppression that we see in the West Bank or the blockade of Gaza,” Abuznaid said. “There’s no interest on behalf of the administration in putting forward the political capital necessary to achieve a solution.”


During the latest conflict, the US blocked the United Nations Security Council three times from condemning Israel’s bombing of Gaza and Biden was criticised for his slow reaction to the crisis. The Biden administration “blundered” when it failed to immediately condemn the forced expulsions of Palestinians from East Jerusalem that led to the May conflict, Telhami said.

Meanwhile, an increasing number of Democratic legislators are pushing the Biden administration to take a stronger line with Israeli leaders by conditioning US aid.

Last month, 73 Democrats in the US House of Representatives urged Biden to reverse policies set by the Trump administration, including a formal withdrawal of Trump’s “peace plan” proposed in January 2020 that many saw as opening a door to Israeli annexation of Palestinian lands.

The House members, led by Representative Gerry Connolly, called on Biden to “strongly oppose the forced expulsion via eviction of Palestinian families from their homes in East Jerusalem” and to “make clear that the US considers settlements to be inconsistent with international law”.

Forced expulsions in Sheikh Jarrah have paused, but without intervention by the Israeli government in court proceedings to stop them, they will most likely begin again which means a renewed crisis lies ahead.

“The Bennett government has carte blanche, a free ticket to continue the status quo uninterrupted,” Abuznaid said.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021...-conflict-looms-large-biden-meets-jordan-king

 

Pegasus Highlights New World of Espionage





French authorities have vowed to investigate after it emerged that President Emmanuel Macron’s phone was recorded on a list of possible targets of government-led phone hacking using software, called Pegasus, licensed by a private Israeli spyware firm.

According to an investigation by a global media consortium which includes the Washington Post, Le Monde, and the Guardian, ten prime ministers, three presidents, and Morocco’s King Mohammed VI were all potential targets.

Spyware for all. It’s not the first time world leaders have been targeted by spy agencies—the U.S. National Security Agency’s targeting of German Chancellor Angela Merkel is one high profile instance—but the Pegasus revelations highlight how sophisticated espionage programs are no longer limited to wealthy states, and can be purchased on the open market. On Sunday, it emerged that governments in at least 10 countries had used the spyware tool to surveil journalists and dissidents.

The software company responsible, NSO, has denied the investigative consortium’s allegations, calling them “so outrageous and far from reality” that the company is considering suing for defamation. The company said that it vets government clients for human rights concerns before it sells its Pegasus software and that it is intended to be used as a counterterrorism tool.

Netanyahu’s role. Criticism has also been leveled at Israel, particularly the previous government led by Benjamin Netanyahu. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz—one of the consortium’s members—charted Netanyahu’s travels to countries that would become NSO customers, and how the software may have been used as “diplomatic currency” to further Israel’s strategic goals.

Modi’s problems. In India, the investigation has caused a political scandal. The Indian National Congress—the largest opposition party—has accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government of spying on its leader Rahul Gandhi after his number appeared on NSO’s list. Congress has called for Home Minister Amit Shah’s resignation over the issue, while government spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad countered that there was “not a shred of evidence” linking Modi’s government to the Pegasus story. It would not be the Modi government’s first alleged offense: It was accused of using NSO software to hack 1,400 phones before India’s 2019 elections.

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Well now, he's some actual history, It seems the King of Jordan was assassinated in 1951, for openly attempting to make peace with Israel, and guess what...
Palistinians murdered him and shed his blood on the very spot they consider sacred, the al-Aqsa Mosque..palie could have had peace with Israel, they probably could have had their own state in the early 50's, palies chose assignation instead.

70 years ago, Jordan's king assassinated by Palestinian on Temple Mount
Abdullah was assassinated by a Palestinian gunman while exiting al-Aqsa Mosque with his grandson Hussein.


King Abdullah I of Jordan with Glubb Pasha, the day before the King was assassinated.


Tuesday marked 70 years since Jordanian King Abdullah I was assassinated by a Palestinian on the Temple Mount, as Abdullah was visiting Jerusalem to meet with Israeli officials amid his efforts to reach a settlement with Israel.Abdullah was assassinated at the age of 69 by a Palestinian gunman while exiting al-Aqsa Mosque after Friday prayers with his grandson Hussein.

The assassin, Mustafa Shukri Ashshu, was associated with the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem Amin al-Husseini, who sparked riots against Jews in Mandatory Palestine and was close with Adolf Hitler during World War II.
Those associated with the ex-mufti were "bitter enemies" of Abdullah, as the ex-mufti supported the establishment of a Palestinian state, which Abdullah seemed to have thwarted by annexing the West Bank, according to a Guardian article from the day after the assassination.

A few days before the assassination, Riad al Sohl, the first prime minister of Lebanon, was also assassinated in Jordan.
Ali Razmara, prime minister of Iran, and Abdul Hamid Zanganeh, former education minister of Iran, were also assassinated in the months before Abdullah's assassination. The assassinations were seen as a sign of increasing instability in the region.

Abullah was succeeded by his son Talal, who was forced to abdicate about a year later due to mental illness. Talal was succeeded by Hussein, who ruled until 1999, when he was succeeded by the current king of Jordan, Abdullah II.
King Abdullah of Jordan was known for his efforts to reach at least some form of peace with Israel, although he was assassinated 43 years before a peace treaty between the two nations was finally signed.
Abdullah met with Reuven Shiloah, the first Mossad director, and Golda Meir in a number of discussions from 1949 to 1950.
The king made extensive efforts to get other Jordanian officials to support reaching a settlement with Israel, but faced intense opposition from both officials and the Jordanian and Palestinian public.
Abdullah had been set to meet with Shiloah and diplomat Moshe Sasson in Jerusalem the day after he was assassinated, according to Avi Shalim, an Israeli-British historian.

In Lion of Jordan, Shalim's biography of Abdullah's grandson, Hussein, Abdullah is quoted as having told Sasson "I want to make peace with Israel not because I have become a Zionist or care for Israel’s welfare but because it is in the interest of my people. I am convinced that if we do not make peace with you, there will be another war, and another war, and another war, and another war, and we shall lose all these wars. Hence it is the supreme interest of the Arab nation to make peace with you"

Elias Sasson, Moshe's father, wrote shortly after Abdullah's assassination: "King Abdullah was the only Arab statesman who showed an understanding for our national renewal, a sincere desire to come to a settlement with us, and a realistic attitude to most of our demands and arguments... We as well as some of the Arabs and foreigners are going to feel for a long time to come his absence, and to regret more than a little his removal from our midst," according to Shalim's biography.

By the time of his assassination, Israeli officials had largely lost hope that Abdullah's efforts would ever lead to an actual peace due to continuing opposition by Arab and Jordanian officials.
At the time of his assassination, a newsreel by the British Pathé News described Abdullah as "the one man who might have brought peace to the Middle East."

Winston Churchill expressed deep regret after hearing of Abdullah's assassination, saying "I deeply regret the murder of this wise and faithful Arab ruler, who never deserted the cause of Britain and held out the hand of reconciliation to Israel," according to The Guardian.

 

Netanyahu, Rabin and the Assassination That Shook History

Among the events featured in the documentary: Netanyahu’s rise to power in the wake of the 1995 assassination of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin by a right-wing Israeli Jew.

With fresh accounts from Israeli, Palestinian and U.S. diplomats, the documentary explores right-wing anger in Israel over Rabin’s support of the U.S.-brokered Oslo peace accord with the Palestinians, and how Netanyahu became the face of the opposition as it grew more hostile.


https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/netanyahu-rabin-and-the-assassination-that-shook-history/

 

beat me by 14 minutes as I planted a shrub...no matter, the point is, PALISTINIANS are screaming for a state, forum fucks are screaming for a state and PALISTINIANS kill every opportunity

 

Gave up defending, PALISTINIANS, so anything...Israeli, ....is fair game

 

Now we'll here the bumbler version of how Netanyahu was behind the whole thing...

AS HE IGNORES PALISTINIANS killing the King of Jordan in 1951.... for trying to make peace with ISRAEL,....




.....4 years before his sacred diaries were even dreamed about.

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Giving context to his bedtime stories

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Hay bumbler, go look up Baruch Goldstein, I'm not doing your homework but that'll give ya two....in the mean time, see below

 

Palistinians pay their terrorist killers of Israeli citizens in a kind of murderous social security welfare fund

The Palestinian Authority Martyrs’ Fund

The Palestinian Authority Martyrs’ Fund, the PA’s prisoner payment program, provides monthly stipends to both Palestinians imprisoned or injured by Israel (primarily the Israeli military, but by civilians as well) and to families of those who have been killed. The Palestinian Authority officially introduced this policy in 2004 through the passage of the Law of Prisoners No.19. This policy aimed to support Arab Israelis and Palestinians who were participating in the Second Intifiada, a period of violent uprisings against Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, which often took the form of terror attacks against Israeli civilian and military targets. A 2013 amendment, Government Decision No.15, expanded this welfare system by guaranteeing prisoners civil service employment upon their release. Through these laws, the PA established a tiered system in which prisoners receive more funding the longer they sit in prison, with more money waiting for them on the outside in the form of a monthly salary. In addition, an ex-prisoner who sat in captivity for one-to-three years is eligible for a one-time bonus of $1,500 USD upon release; that number jumps to $6,000 at over a decade in prison, and to $25,000 for thirty years or more. Ex-prisoners also receive additional benefits from the government, including partially or fully-waived health insurance payments and tuition at Palestinian universities.

As its name suggests, the Martyrs’ Fund also provides financial support for families of Palestinians who are killed or injured by Israel. Like prisoners, the families of “martyrs” receive a lump sum and a monthly allowance from the government. According to Government Decision No. 15 of 2013, a martyr’s family receives at least $133 a month, with generous add-ons if the martyr is married, has children, or is a member of the Palestinian Authority Security Forces (PASF). The family of a married martyr who is also a private in the PASF would receive $400 a month; a deceased first lieutenant would earn his family $633.3 a month; a major general, $1227. In total, these payments cost the Palestinian Authority over $300 million annually, accounting for 8% of its budget.




This is the culture the palestinians create, around death and murder and terror of innocent civilians,

Palestinians had many chances to agree to a state state, many chances they turned down, it's own because they wanted all or nothing, no negotiation,
palestinians don't want to live side-by-side with Israel, palestinians want all of the land And jews expelled.
If If palestinians wanted peace, If palestinians wanted their own nation, They would sit and negotiate with Israel Like civilized human beings And not by blowing up busses, stabbing civilians and firing rockets At Israeli schools.

And no amount of bumbler logic Or thinly veiled Jew hate can change any of that.

So don't cry to me palestinians you had many chances and you said no, It's only Jew haters who take up your side and nations who just want to shut you the fuck up,

 

And palestinians still aren't getting any Ben and Jerry's

Texas looking into divestment from Unilever over Ben & Jerry's boycott
By LAHAV HARKOV JULY 22, 2021 15:40

Unilever CEO says company is "fully committed to our business in Israel.'
Texas may withdraw its investments from Ben & Jerry’s parent company Unilever, after the ice cream company decided to boycott Judea and Samaria, Texas State Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced on Thursday.
Hegar said he directed his staff to determine whether Ben & Jerry's or Unilever took any action that would trigger his state's anti-boycott law. Texas’ pension fund amounts to over $100 million, according to Bloomberg, and Unilever is included in its portfolio.
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Texas Government Code Chapter 808 prohibits the government from investing its pension fund in any party that boycotts Israel. It defines "boycott Israel" as "refusing to deal with, terminating business activities with, or otherwise taking any action that is intended to penalize, inflict economic harm on or limit commercial relations specifically with Israel or with a person or entity doing business in Israel or an Israeli-controlled territory."
Ben & Jerry's

 

Palestinian Islamic jihad, another Iranian supported terror group, Also stores their Bombs In palestinian marketplaces and homes, One of them blew up And this is a result, But terror groups don't care not even about their own people

1 killed, 10 injured in explosion at Gaza City market
By TZVI JOFFRE JULY 22, 2021 20:12

Explosion at market in Gaza City, July 22, 2021.

Images reportedly from the scene showed heavily damaged structures and a smoke cloud that could be seen from a distance.
One person was killed and 10 others were injured after a weapons storage belonging to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist movement at the Al-Zawiya market in Gaza City exploded on Thursday morning, IDF spokesperson for Arab media Avichay Adraee reported on Twitter.

"This explosion is another evidence of the way the interests of terrorist organizations are prioritized over the interests of the residents of the Gaza Strip," wrote Adraee.
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The PIJ seemed to take some form of responsibility on Thursday evening, announcing that it would "rise up to its responsibilities" and follow up with all concerned parties concerning the explosion in the market. The terrorist movement expressed its "full solidarity" with those affected by the explosion.
The injured were transferred to Shifa Hospital in the coastal enclave. The Palestinian killed in the incident was identified by Palestinian media as Atta Saqallah.
"Instead of responding to UN calls for the reconstruction of Gaza, terrorist organizations continue to manufacture weapons and promote the construction of military sites," added Adraee.

"These terrorist organizations store their weapons in the heart of residential neighborhoods and among civilians, exposing them directly to danger."

The terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip released a statement expressing their "full solidarity" with those affected by the explosion, stressing the need to rise up to national responsibility in order to prevent the accident from occurring again, according to Palestinian media.
Images reportedly from the scene showed heavily damaged structures and a smoke cloud that could be seen from a distance. A number of smaller booms could be heard in video reportedly showing the moments leading up to the larger explosion.

The Hamas Interior Ministry stated that the explosion occurred in a multi-story house in the market, leading to the collapse of large parts of the home and damage to nearby homes and shops.
Explosions caused by weapons stored in civilian homes have occurred in Gaza in the past.

In January, an explosion destroyed a home in Gaza where terrorists were attempting to prepare explosives. At the time, Adraee said on Twitter that "the story of the house is the story of many homes in the Gaza Strip," that are being used for weapons storage.


"They have turned [homes] into warehouses of weapons, military parts and missiles for terrorist organizations and the people who pay the price in the end are the innocent civilians," added Adraee at the time.

 

NEGOCIATIONS!?


Palestinian Authority official says PA ready for direct talks with Israel
By FELICE FRIEDSON/THE MEDIA LINE JULY 23, 2021 03:35

Palestinian Authority Civil Affairs Minister Hussein Al-Sheikh speaks to The Media Line in his office in Ramallah.. (photo credit:THE MEDIA LINE)
The Palestinian Authority's Hussein Al-Sheikh told The Media Line that the PA is ready for direct talks with Israel.
Civil Affairs Minister Hussein Al-Sheikh is one of the leading figures in the Palestinian Authority hierarchy and is one of President Mahmoud Abbas’ closest advisers. Al-Sheikh is the point person to Israel in all security matters and chairs the dialogue between the Palestinian government and the United States administration. Al-Sheikh, who rarely gives public statements and has not given a full interview in some years, sat down with The Media Line’s Felice Friedson in his Ramallah office for this exclusive conversation that included the current political situation, the next steps in jumpstarting the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and the American role in the conflict and internal security issues. Born in Ramallah in 1960, Hussein Al-Sheikh is the longtime head of the General Authority of Civil Affairs. As head of the Coordination and Cooperation Committee, he is the point person for contacts with Israel regarding civilian matters in the Palestinian territories. He also represented the Palestinian side on the Trilateral Gaza Reconstruction Committee following the 2014 Gaza War. He’s a member of the Palestinian National Council, the PLO Central Council, and the Fatah Central Council, and chair of the dialogue with the US administration. From 1978 to 1989 Al-Sheikh was imprisoned in Israel. He is married with two sons, four daughters, and five grandchildren.