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The mayor of Reykjavik, Dagur Eggertsson, is presiding over the decision of his municipal council to remove all Israeli products – not just those from inside the "Green Line" some countries have taken issue with.
Having once been to Iceland for several weeks, I cannot now revoke that visit, but I can promise never to visit again. As a consequence of the dark northern city's unwarranted boycott of all Israeli products, moreover, an ill-advised illegal shunning of Israeli goods and produce, I shall make it my business to bruit this unwarranted, foolish, and adamantly malign act of total freeze-out of a member-nation of the U.N.
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Many nations condemn, like Iceland, [. . .] how Israel, [. . .] defends herself in a stringent and careful manner, warning opponents when a strike is in the offing, advising civilians to take shelter via leaflets dropped from the air, even emailing and personally phoning local indigenous before letting loose any ordnance. What army in the history of the world has gone to such lengths to avoid civilian losses?
Israel is in fact a country that provides freedoms unexampled in any of the other nations surrounding this tiny, beleaguered nation. Israel provides freedom of movement, freedom for all women to work and educate as they please, freedom to marry whomever, freedom from forced conversion,
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Israel amiably ensures freedom to travel and the touted freedom to disagree vociferously with the government. Voting is easy and universal, and litigation is prompt, fair, and universally acclaimed for a justice system that is vigorously impartial.
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Looking for fit subjects to boycott? [. . .] any of the clashing nations of Africa or of South America. Regard, maybe, the officious, dictatorial fiefdom of Cuba.
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The clear bias is stunning, where Israel has been singularly brilliant at helping the world in medicine, physics, engineering, robotics, health care, automation, electronics, math – all the sciences, in fact. And most of the arts.
Fact is, such bigotry is hard to square with Israel's outstanding human rights record. Israel is usually the first to help, as it did in Haiti after the earthquake that leveled the island, or Nepal, where crack medical teams arrived with field hospitals and rescued thousands, without payment of any kind, for months.
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Mayor Eggertsson [. . .] I have to assume they are willfully ignorant, never reading a history or current newspaper to learn of these differences between democratic Israel and undemocratic others.
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How about our boycotting Iceland?
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/09/how_about_boycotting_reykjavik.html
September 24, 2015
How about Boycotting Reykjavik?
By Marion DS Dreyfus
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