By Aryeh Savir
At the start of the weekly Israeli Cabinet meeting yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu stated: “Attempts to impose a boycott on the State of Israel are immoral and unjust. Moreover, they will not achieve their goal. First, they cause the Palestinians to adhere to their intransigent positions and thus push peace further away. Second, no pressure will cause me to concede the vital interests of the State of Israel, especially the security of Israel’s citizens. For both of these reasons, threats to boycott the State of Israel will not achieve their goal.”
Prime Minster Netanyahu was responding to US Secretary of State John Kerry’s threats that: “Today’s status quo absolutely, to a certainty, I promise you 100 percent, cannot be maintained. It’s not sustainable. It’s illusionary. There’s a momentary prosperity, there’s a momentary peace,” said Kerry. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Kerry was relating to Israel’s current economic situation, claiming that it will be seriously debilitated if the peace talks with the Palestinians fail.
Earlier today Minister of Economy Naftali Bennet came out harshly against Kerry’s threats: “The Jewish nation is stronger than the threats leveled against it. Let’s be clear: there has never been a nation the relinquished its land as a result of threats. Only security will bring economic stability, not a terrorist state next to Ben-Gurion Airport. We expect our friends around the world to stand beside us, against anti-Semitic boycott efforts targeting Israel, and not for them to be their amplifier,” he said.
Denmark’s second largest bank, Danske Bank, recently announced that it has blacklisted Israel’s Bank Hapoalim because of its links to construction in Judea and Samaria. However, Bank Hapoalim announced that it has no savings or investments of any kind made by the Danske Bank.
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Israel has its future in All Ways Torah. G-d bless America and Israel.
i agree 100% that it is wrong to boycott goods from eretz yisrael, unless there is a halachic issue such as shmittah or terumos and maaseros in the produce – really even to bring fruit to chutz laaretz is an insult to their kedusha even if it is not shmittah
It is too bad Bibi doesn’t understand how valuble Israel is to the world, he still has an erev rav brain.
Netanyahu is right about the boycotts, but Kerry wasn’t threatening boycotts, he was warning about them. (And Kerry has been getting blasted even more ferociously from the Palestinian side.)
Kerry was very sleazy to insinuate these so called boycotts.