tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726111557714039733.post5008339665137759840..comments2023-03-27T01:38:28.723-07:00Comments on Boycott for Peace: Israel's Predatory Economics Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726111557714039733.post-14969428879836456542015-04-30T19:15:33.576-07:002015-04-30T19:15:33.576-07:00" . . . . Palestinian commerce had long been..." . . . . Palestinian commerce had long been hostage to the occupier - a satellite that for 50 years has been forced to revolve around Israel's larger and more advanced economy."<br /><br />"Few Palestinians are happy with this arrangement, but there is little they can do about it on their own, being locked into a relationship of almost total economic dependency by the Paris Protocols, an often forgotten sub-section of the Oslo Agreements of the mid-1990s.<br /><br />"The terms of the protocols are stark: where any external trade is permitted, with countries such as Jordan and Turkey, it is strictly limited and controlled. The kind of free trade seen in the rest of the world is a chimera here."<br /><br />"Currently Palestinians have to accept the goods and services which Israel allows them to have and from where it allows them to obtain those things - be it water or fuel or food products or much else besides."<br /><br />Excerpted from: https://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/boycott-israel-162208945.html<br /><br />Highlight URL and right click to read the full article.Harvesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06317944232551873144noreply@blogger.com