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 RABAT — Branded with
Israeli trademark "Bat Sheva", Israeli dates are flooding Moroccan
markets during the holy fasting month of Ramadan.
"I found dates carrying Israeli trademark in the markets," Abdel-Jalil, a teacher, told IslamOnline.net Saturday, September 22. Trademarked "Bat Sheva" – the Hebrew name of the town of Beersheba – the Israeli dates can been seen in abundance on the shelves in eastern and central Morocco. The "Made in Israel" label is obviously seen on the packages. "We used to buy dates from Arab countries such as Tunisia," said hajj Mohamed, a dates vendor. "I myself would not buy dates produced by our enemy," he said. The Israeli-Arab conflict dates back to the 1948 when well-armed Israeli militants bombarded Palestine and forced its natives into a panicky flight to establish the state of Israel. The ties turned more sour after the 1967 Middle East War, when Israel occupied Palestinian Al-Quds (Arab East Jerusalem), the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights. The results of the war affect the geopolitics of the region to this day. Greed Mohamed said some merchants are greedy and uncaring. "They disrespect the sensibilities of Moroccans and are only after money," he said. He said some retailers are baffling merchants like him and mix Israeli dates with Arab ones. "The other day, I was shocked to know that some of the dates were made in Israel," he said. Abdel-Jalil, the teacher, says merchants tend to remove the Israeli label and sell the dates as if they were made in Arab countries like Egypt. "This is provocative," said Khaled Al-Sufiany, coordinator of the national group for the support of Iraq and Palestine. "The pro-Israel camp is exploiting Ramadan and slam dunk a trade normalization on the laypeople," he added. The advocates "are funding the Zionist regime to continue its daily crimes against the Palestinians," he said. Morocco repeatedly denies any trade relations with Israel. The North African kingdom closed its trade office in Tel Aviv and the Israeli trade office in Rabat following the outbreak of the 2000 Al-Aqsa intifada. But non-government groups say that the two countries are having booming ties, especially in the agricultural field. A recent report by Israel Export Institute said that Israeli exports to Morocco mushroomed by 5.3 percent in the first quarter of 2006.    Readers have left 13 comments.
JamalA:
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"The other day, I was shocked to know that some of the dates were made in Israel," he said. "
Date manufacturing machines? Must be a first! Why do the merchants buy Israeli dates? Could it be because there is a market for them? If no-one bought them then the merchants wouldn't buy them. I seem to remember that dates used to come exclusively from Egypt under the "Eat-Me" brand. What happened? In Gaza the Palestinians buy Israeli electricity, fuel, medicine and food. It shows the futility of boycott. No trade boycott of Israel goods has ever brought a result and never will. Its a mountain too high to climb.
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2007-09-22 23:59:19
JamalA:
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I wanted to comment on the Israeli dates 'flooding British Mosques" but the article doesn't substantiate the claim in the headline.
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2007-09-23 00:21:47
I do not usually write here ( un:
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Of course the boycott works against Israel just like all boycotts work against Israel's Christian slaves such as MacDonald' s and Coca Cola.
"In Gaza the Palestinians buy Israeli electricity, fuel, medicine and food. It shows the futility of boycott." Yes of course they do. But if you took your head out of the sand (or Israel's back-side) you would see that Gaza is a place beseiged by Israel where Palestinians have no option to do that to survive whilst only a few miles away the CIA-planted tyrants of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Morrocco, UAE, Algeria and Tunisia earn heaven's reward by spending Ramadan in opulent luxury unaware of the plight of tha Gaza Palestinians who are resisting Israel and its American supplied nuclear weapons, tanks and jets with nothing but bare hands. In recent years Palestinians have had to liberate Gaza twice---first from the Israelis, and second from Israelis' "moderate" stooge Abbas with whom the other Israeli stooge Tony Blair is negotiating to quickly grab as much land, water and oil as possible and to build the apartheid wall. Israel's boycott works and all companies (such as M & S, Sainsbury's Goldman-Sachs etc)that are the target of the boycott make a loss and wil go bust with the grace of God
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2007-09-23 14:16:41
JamalA:
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Of course the boycott works against Israel just like all boycotts work against Israel's Christian slaves such as MacDonald' s and Coca Cola. — I do not usually write here ( un"In Gaza the Palestinians buy Israeli electricity, fuel, medicine and food. It shows the futility of boycott." Yes of course they do. But if you took your head out of the sand (or Israel's back-side) you would see that Gaza is a place beseiged by Israel where Palestinians have no option to do that to survive whilst only a few miles away the CIA-planted tyrants of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Morrocco, UAE, Algeria and Tunisia earn heaven's reward by spending Ramadan in opulent luxury unaware of the plight of tha Gaza Palestinians who are resisting Israel and its American supplied nuclear weapons, tanks and jets with nothing but bare hands. In recent years Palestinians have had to liberate Gaza twice---first from the Israelis, and second from Israelis' "moderate" stooge Abbas with whom the other Israeli stooge Tony Blair is negotiating to quickly grab as much land, water and oil as possible and to build the apartheid wall. Israel's boycott works and all companies (such as M & S, Sainsbury's Goldman-Sachs etc)that are the target of the boycott make a loss and wil go bust with the grace of God You got it real bad, haven't you?
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2007-09-23 18:05:42
JamalA:
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"Israel's boycott works and all companies (such as M & S, Sainsbury's Goldman-Sachs etc)that are the target of the boycott make a loss and wil go bust with the grace of God "
But they are actually making fantastic profits, by the grace of God. We can only conclude that God blesses those who support Israel.
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2007-09-23 18:09:18
MPACUK needs an Editorial Policy:
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To keep psychos and sickos like you from trolling and spamming here who make this page look like the Israeli Public Affairs Committee's web-page. I would suggest you spend your sad Zionist life elsewhere...
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2007-09-23 18:47:58
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Isn't it interesting that the quoted Moroccans expressed emnity towards the Zionist state and it's expulsion of the Palestinians, while they are not reported as showing any remorse regarding their own actions against Jews. It should not be forgotten that 95% of the Moroccans Jews fled between 1948 and 1967 due to the treatment they recived at the hands of their fellow Moraoccan nationals. Although the Moroccan Hasan II has invited Moroccan Jews to return, this call has largely fallen on deaf ears.
In the southern Berber regions, tribes that converted centuries ago from Judaism to Isalm report that they still suffer discrimiation on a daily basis. Morocco wants the benefits of open trade with Israel, which are considerable. It is perhaps indiactive of the degree to which the Arab world has become bored of the Palestinian issue that it no longer claims the same degree of practical support that it once did.
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2007-09-24 09:53:30
JamalA:
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Well shalom, another Antisemitically inspired post whereby Israel is accused of seeking money, as the iconic Jew who opresses poor people to make money.
Israel was the place where Palestinians flocked to work - until they started using the checkpoints for smuggling suicide bombs. Since God granted Israel to the Jewish people my guess is that to attack and denigrate Israel is an act of foolishness by defiance of the will of God. God makes Israel prosperous because he wishes to grant favour to his chosen people. Since everything is God's will then we must read the fate of the Palestinians poverty as a punishment. Now, there might be something in that since every Arab nation who has attacked Israel has since suffered. But Israel prospers. Why haven't the other nations heeded the warnings? You do believe in God don't you?
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2007-09-24 20:33:17
Brother U:
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Most of the every expensive Medjool dates being sold in East London Grocery stores are from Israel. They are also the most popular in the few mosques I have been to break fast in!
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2007-09-24 21:26:31
JamalA:
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Zionism establishes the home where the Messiah will bring together the Jewish Nation you fool. Only by establishing Jewish dominance in Israel can the security of The Temple and Jerusalem be preserved in order to fulfil the prophecies. When under Jordanian control the antiquities were destroyed.
Hence the establishment and maintenance of Israel is fundamental to Messianic prediction. Isn't the prediction that the followers of the false prophets will persish in the fires and that God's Chosen people will prevail. Are YOU one of God's chosen? Hmm! It appears not.
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2007-09-24 22:54:59
JamalA:
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shalom, with all due respect to The Koran any commentary it has about Jews that originate from the Koran and are not just re-cycled from the Old Testament are irrelevant since Judaism and the character of Jews that evolves from it pre-dates Islam by several thousand years.
If you want to quote from the Koran then anyone is free to quote back to you something like "Take not the Jews and Christians for friends....." Now, I regret that you have brought the Koran into this discussion because my points have been about the shared theology of Messianic destiny. You are correct. You SHOULD stick to the topic and not allow yourself (so easily) to be dragged into rat hole's. Are Muslims who sell Israeli dates, who use Israeli technology or take Israeli medicine just as guilty as "money-changers" and those who idolise money?
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2007-09-25 07:58:34
Ian Wilson:
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Isreali dates in the mosque? So what? Get over it. There are far more important issues than this to worry (or write) about.
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2007-09-25 14:48:31
JamalA:
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shlomo, you know that Israel and the rest of the wider world uses technology built on Muslim learning (eminating from Spain)You know too well that Maimonides -seen as one of the greatest Jewish thinkers/scholars was taught by Muslims in Muslim institutions across Spain, North Africa and Egypt. — shalomYou still use the Qur'an (Koran -the version that I exposed you,(and other Zionists use), were using translated by an Iraqi Jew),your 'research' of the Qur'an is obvious, you openly call it the Koran! Lol! Show me where it says in your texts/scriptures that Non-Jews are EQUAL, that all HUMANS are chosen -according to their piety and good deeds. NONE! STICK TO THE MAIN TOPIC AND STOP MAKING A FOOL OF YOURSELF. SILLY BOY. FOOL???? Everyone knows that Alan Turing is the father of computers in the mid 20th century. Technology (electronics) is the invention of late 19th century with people like Edison. Who are acknowledged as some of the most gifted mathematicians in the World? Israelis and Jews from Europe. Which country holds the most technology/medical patents per capita - Israel. Which religion holds the greatest number of Nobel Prizes per capita - Jews! Are ALL Arab discoveries original work, or are they collaborative work? Why did they have to go to SPain in order to make these discoveries? What is is about Europe that made such creativity fertile. WOuldn't have anything to do with meeting the Diaspora, would it? BTW - all those Israeli and Jewish achievements are evolutions of previous thought as are ALL discoveries. I whoop it up in parody. You may as well say that the caveman who invented the wheel is the fore-runner of all technology. My guess is that an Iraqi Jew was well-placed to translate the Koran. He'd read most of it before in the Old Testament!!!! LOL
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2007-09-25 14:52:42
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