Report: Port Firm's Parent Boycotts Israel

Post Chronicle ^ | 2-28-06

[markedmannerf]

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28, 2006 (UPI) -- The parent company of Dubai Ports World, which is seeking to manage six U.S. ports, allegedly participates in the Arab boycott against Israel, says a report.

The Jerusalem Post reports it has learned Dubai Ports World is entirely owned by the Government of Dubai through the holding company Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation.

The Post said company consists of the Dubai Port Authority, the Dubai Customs Department and the Jebel Ali Free Zone Area.

"Yes, of course the boycott is still in place and is still enforced," Muhammad Rashid a-Din with the Dubai Customs Department's Office for the Boycott of Israel was quoted as telling the Post in a telephone interview.

"If a product contained even some components that were made in Israel, and you wanted to import it to Dubai, it would be a problem," he said.

[MNJohnnie]

Be nice if the Port Deal hysterics would quit lying. US Ports are run by local Govt Port authorites, NOT shipping companies. As for the rest, the European Union gives money to Hamas. When do we start kicking all the Eurotrash out of our economy?

[Hildy]

The press is complicit in the hysteria now. I'm surprised Bush's approval rating is as high as 34%, given the press never writes one postive thing about him.

[KeyLargo]

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[Stellar Dendrite]

ping

[sit-rep]

As we kiss butt to make friends, the rest of the planet continues on the way they are...progressive. As terror threats silently build, we are making friends so it does not happen to us again.

I wish I could see what the future holds in store for my country. All I can do is feel what is in store. Kinda like being blind I reckon...

[bert]

So What?

They are a soverign nation. They can trade as they please.

[Marine Inspector]

Be nice if the Port Deal hysterics would quit lying.

Yes it would.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

I think a better question would be "when did we start inviting Bedouin fascists to control our economy?"

Why the hell should some Saudi dirtbag like Prince Alaweed Bin-Taleel be able to exercise a veto over critical commercial and political interests?

It's bad enough that media moguls, e.g. Rupert Murdoch, the owners of Google, Yahoo, etc. voluntarily censor broadcasts and publications in Red China-the last contemptible outfit going so far as to give the PRC junta information to round up and incarcerate dissidents, who'll probably spend the next decade rotting in some distant laogai, if they manage to survive-but the fact that we need to cosset and coddle people whose view of free speech involves cutting out the tongues of people who say the wrong thing irks me to no end.

Why the hell are we economically empowering a country where criminal syndicates, prostitution and child slavery rings, and terrorist financing are prevalent?

Why are we emboldening people who are already resident to change, and reluctant at modifying their anachronistic, retrograde values.

[clawrence3]

Duplicate thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1586865/posts

[MNJohnnie]

Curious when the fact that out of 300 port terminals the UAE company will lease 9 of them is going to become part of the debate? Wonder if any of the Port Deal critics have any guess how many foreign airliners are flying over their head at any given time? So what is next? Nationalizing the Airline gates?

[trubluolyguy]

This just in, head chopping followers of the child molester don't really care for jooooooos.

[Paperdoll]

>I wish I could see what the future holds in store for my country<

You really don't want to know! With the disturbing strides being made against Judeo-Christian traditions )I've heard the gubmint now wants to penalize Social Security for recipients who tithe their churches!); the gay agenda spreading throughout the school system; the anti-American press and ballooning left wingers in politics, it doesn't look pretty, sit-rep.

It is time we all band together to fight these dangerous trends. If not, we will get what we deserve.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

They're going to take over port terminal operations in 21 ports.

Feel free to correct my arithmetic, but isn't that number a smidge higher than the original "6" administration flacks were touting?

A mandatory 45-day review in cases where a foreign country taking over a U.S. company would trigger national security concerns.

A review that would have been bypassed if the supporters of this sham deal had had their way.

The White House appointing for a former DP World exect to head up the Maritime Administration of the DOT.

None of this raises alarm bells in your mind?

[veronica]

BTTT...

[sit-rep]

bttt!!

[TomasUSMC]

urious when the fact that out of 300 port terminals the UAE company will lease 9 of them is going to become part of the debate? Wonder if any of the Port Deal critics have any guess how many foreign airliners are flying over their head at any given time? So what is next? Nationalizing the Airline gates?

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Just because the situation is bad doesn't mean our own President should strive - to the point of using a veto - and make it worse.

In a country of 300 million, there is no reason American companies can not be found to run this terminal. All that is needed is Leadership from the White House.

[TomasUSMC]

21?!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MNJohnnie]

Yeah I know. Don't bother the Chicken Little with the facts. They want to go into full mental meltdown mode and refuse to listen to any facts that were not fed them by Chucky Schumer in his Democrat Election Committee Press Release sent out to the Junk Journalists about the Ports. Amazing how "Conservatives" are so desperate to push Democrat Senate Election Committee propaganda. Did any of you bother to even WONDER why Chucky got booked by Mike Savage? The Port carp being spun out to you is all PR not reality.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

I have a question for you.

When CNOOC was poised to take over Unocal-the Communist government of China attempting to seize yet another vital economic asset of the United States, with the complicity of avaricious, amoral, unpatriotic corporate powerbrokers-were you just as blase?

[Canedawg]

"None of this raises alarm bells in your mind?"

I have red flags in my mind. You have alarm bells? ;_)

[TigersEye]

In a country of 300 million, there is no reason American companies can not be found to run this terminal. All that is needed is Leadership from the White House.

Um, are you suggesting that that the President order a company to buy this port lease deal?

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Lawlz.

:0))

[FBD]

>"Curious when the fact that out of 300[0] port terminals the UAE company will lease 9 of them is going to become part of the debate?"<

But out of 3000 ports here in the U.S., do we really desperately need the Crown Prince of Dubai to operate 21 terminals here?
No. We've gotten along without Sheikh Maktoum just fine.

This deal is more advantageous for the Crown Prince of Dubai, then it is for the U.S. There are other well qualified operators from democratic non-Islamic countries whose government does not endorse terrorist organizations like Hamas, including operators right here in the U.S. of A.

One of the arguments I'm hearing is that moderate Muslims will be offended by our blocking DP World from this deal. This might push muslims over the edge to radicalism.
wow.
If that's all it takes, (and events in Denmark over a cartoon would indicate it doesn't take much to push them over the edge) then this deal is being promoted more out of fear of the UAE's reaction then it is about promoting our own security.

But don't worry about the Sheikh....he will still be able to buy all of the Royal Maktoum family Mercedes and million dollar race horses, even if this deal falls through. The Maktoum's will continue to rule Dubai, just as they have for almost 200 years.

Rulers of Dubai

Maktoum bin Buti (1833-1852)
Saeed bin Buti (1852-1859)
Hasher bin Maktoum (1859-1886)
Rashid bin Maktoum (1886-1894)
Maktoum bin Hasher (1894-1906)
Buti bin Suhail (1906-1912)
Saeed bin Maktoum
(1912-1958)
Rashid bin Saeed (1958-1990)
Maktoum bin Rashid (1990-2006)
Mohammed bin Rashid (2006-Present)

[Stellar Dendrite]

do you hear that?


it's quite faint but i believe it's, ah yes....the sound of CRICKETS CHIRPING

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Don't worry, I'm sure that once those multi-party, democratic reforms kick in they'll have one of a race on their hands, just like the Sabahs, Sudairis, Thanis, and the rest of those wonderfully pluralistic, "modern" bedouins.

:_)

[FBD]

The more I read about the UAE, the more opposed I am to this port operation deal. Info on the UAE dictatorship:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1587941/posts

Have you seen how close of an ally the Crown Prince of Dubai is to Iran?

Take a look at this:
http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-18/0602025066004651.htm