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Ban Israeli blood diamonds
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Sunday June 06, 2010 20:15 by Sean Clinton
EU must call for urgent review of the Kimberly Process At this critical juncture it is important that all who seek an end to Zionist hegemony focus on the critical structures underpinning the regime. Even a cursory examination of Israeli trade statistics reveals the importance of the diamond industry to the Israeli economy. Israel dominates the global diamond market and is, by a significant margin, its largest beneficiary with net diamond exports amounting to $10 billion in 2008. Revenue from the Israeli diamond industry funds war crimes, crimes against humanity and high seas piracy – yet its diamonds are not classed as blood diamonds. The Kimberly Process system of self-regulation introduced by the diamond industry stipulates that only rough diamonds can be classed as blood diamonds. Israel’s cut and polished diamonds avoid having to comply with any human rights standards and are being sold as “conflict free” diamonds to unsuspecting consumer. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13Diamonds in times of crisis? Well done Sean, very switched on you are.
"Diamonds profits=Funding for illegal Israeli Colonies/'Settlements'"
These diamonds help finance the criminals who help finance the many of the illegal Israeli Colonies/'Settlements'" built on recently stolen Palestinian land
To give but one example from many possible examples:
here's another:
and another
do you need any more examples or is that enough???
duh
This is an interesting article on Israeli companies involved in blood diamonds and their links to American political and corporate power.
http://www.allthingspass.com/uploads/html-203BD%20Combd...7.htm
Maurice Tempelsman
http://www.eurasia.org/about/bio_tempelsman.aspx
http://www.ocnus.net/artman2/publish/Business_1/The_Ger...shtml
The Jews have been involved in the diamond trade for more than a thousand years.
Quaint rules imposed on Christians by Rome made sure that Jews slotted into the trade.
The Rome rules on banking are also the reason why Jews were leading bankers.
If the Jews are the leading diamond dealers today you can blame the Vatican.
A Kimberley Process intersessional meeting will be held in Tel Aviv between June 21-23. This presents an opportunity for the EU to raise the issue of a review of the process so that all diamonds that fund human rights abuse are regulated by the Kimberly Process and not just rough diamonds used by rebel movements.
Not surprisingly, Eli Avidar, Managing Director of the Israel Diamond Institute, says that the focus of the Kimberley Process intersessional meeting in Tel Aviv will be on Zimbabwe’s diamond trade.
"This presents an opportunity for the EU to raise the issue of a review of the process so that all diamonds that fund human rights abuse are regulated by the Kimberly Process and not just rough diamonds used by rebel movements".
Let us not forget that Diamonds and Gold helped to preserve a race who were always surrounded by murderous opopsition.
'The Jews' as you like to refer to them, are not a 'race' - Judaism is a religion shared by a number of separate groups the main ones being :
* Mizrahim (Middle Eastern )
* Ashkenazim (East European/Russian - mainly descended from Khazar-converts to the religion)
* Sephardim (Originally Spanish- probably descended from converts)
* Habashim (Ethiopian - probably descended from converts) -
as any intelligent unbiased observer can see it is utterly implausible that these genetically-disparate groupings could ever truthfully be said to from a cohesive genetic/racial grouping - in fact Mizrahim are more closely connected to modern-day Palestinians than to any other group of humans on the planet and genetic testing has shown this to be the case - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/nov/25/medicalscie...etics
'The Jews' as you like to refer to them, are not a 'race' - Judaism is a religion shared by a number of separate groups the main ones being"
That is being childish.
Race is a general term.
The Irish or English or French are races by name only.
The only pure "race" on earth are the male priests in the Vatican.
There is no chance that females from the outside will contaminate Rome..
Mind you.
Rome itself was founded by:
"The Rape of the Sabine Women".
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rape_of_the_Sabine_Women
Even if as you say 'race is a general term' it is still utterly meaningless In this context.
When used in this context - when used to equate a religion with a race e.g.: The Christian race, it is nothing but the indication of a racial-supremacist from of thought - anyone using it in such a fashion is in effect a racist, hence my comparison of Zionists with Anti-Semites - they are essentially both sides of the same coin - both are racist
The Irish or English or French are races by name only.
actually Anti-Zionist is correct, (so my apologies to him/her) it is generally true that only racists ever use the terms 'Irish race', 'English race' or 'French race' - they are the thought-products of people for whom racist thinking is second-nature
The only pure "race" on earth are the male priests in the Vatican.
I have no idea how that astoundingly ridiculous sentence quoted above managed to appear under a post bearing my nom de Indymedia - I must have been channeling Opie or something even more bizzare - If any more ridiculous sentences like that appear under my moniker it's probably best to just presume that someone is trying to hijack my chosen identity . . . or else I've been temporarily channeling Opie once again.
"I have no idea how that astoundingly ridiculous sentence quoted above managed to appear."
It was meant to be ridiculous.
Catholic priests are forbidden to reproduce themselves.
You would not ask that punishment off a bacterium.
.