Arab envoys to Syria meeting call for tightening boycott of Israel
After 4 days of talks, Arabs states blacklist six companies ties to Israel; eight nations eschew conference.
By The Associated Press Tags: SyriaArab delegates meeting in a Syria-based office for boycotting Israel wrapped up four days of talks Thursday with demands for a tightening of the anti-Israel ban among Arab nations.
The meeting blacklisted six companies, mostly European, that do business with Israel and lifted a ban on four other companies, deemed to have abided by the boycott rules, a statement from the anti-Israeli group said.
The names of the companies involved were not disclosed.
Eight Arab countries stayed away from the meeting, including Egypt and Jordan which have signed peace treaties with Israel.
The Damascus meeting, held twice a year at the headquarters of the Central Boycott Office in the Syrian capital, drew delegates from 14 Arab states and Palestinian territories.
The meeting's agenda probed ways to abort attempts by some Israeli companies to penetrate Arab markets.
The delegates said that a just and comprehensive peace in the Middle East was still a strategic option for the Arabs, but underscored the importance of a wide Arab and Islamic boycott of Israel as a legitimate tool for self-defense, the statement said.
The boycott is also a pressing tool to force Israel to bow to the resolutions of international legitimacy, it added.
Head of the Central Boycott Office, Tunisia's Mohammad al-Tayyeb Bouslaa, told reporters that Israel was trying to penetrate Arab markets under different names.
Mohammad Bousbeih, a Palestinian delegate, said boycotting Israel was important and influential, stressing that the Arab world can offer peace but not surrender to Israel.
Bousbeih sought to downplay allegations the Damascus Office group was losing momentum by saying that the Arab countries which didn't attend were unable to come to the meeting for technical reasons.
The once-influential Damascus Office was set up in 1951 and was funded by the Arab League to track down foreign companies that do business with or support Israel and then ban them from operating in the Arab world.
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that there is no point in dealing with arabs / muslims on any basis on any subject !
we have to make it very, VERY public ALL the names of the companies, their officers, etc. All the particulars of every incident of the companies compliance with the boycott. We have to plaster the worlds with their names. There are far less of us than our enemies, but there are enough of us and our friends to make the life of these bastards misarable..
the words "once influential" seem to say it all. I find it interesting only 14 states were represented.
Punishing all Israelis (by deprivation of the goods of those companies) for the actions of the government. So collectively punishing Israelis is OK, but Gazans, no. But even hypocrisy has limits. When the argument runs: 'Arab/Muslim countries may boycott Israel, but Israel must nonetheless continue supplying a Gaza which is attacking it with fuel whose cost is made prohibitively more expensive by the boycott;' (and even if the EU pays the bill) more and more people will realize that that argument doesn't pass the smell test. If Arabs can boycott Israel, Israel can boycott Gaza.
Nothing but negative energy emanating from these insects. This is surely their final party. All of them will be fried in the coming months, when the EU, US and Israel abundantly bomb Iran, Syria, Hizzistan and Hamastan into complete oblivion. One can smell the scent of roast pork even now.
Arabs should start with a boycott of fuel and water to Gaza. That would show those uppity Israelis!
Poor things, no chat programmes, no downloading movies from the internet (all those programmes labelled .avi) no ,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ........... ......... nnnnnnnnnnn list of medicines.
This it what has happened in all the Arab countries following a boycott on Israel, even in a few that do have oil like Iraq, Sudan, Egypt, Iran also.
This it what has happened in all the Arab countries following a boycott on Israel, even in a few that do have oil like Iraq, Sudan, Egypt, Iran also.
Seems some Arab States forgot about Hariri. And then there is that little question about Syria being Buddy Buddy with Iran. Don't I recall Iran making some threats not too long ago against the Arab oil producing states?