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Diamonds are Israel's number one export commodity, accounting for betwee...
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Diamonds are Israel's number one export commodity, accounting for between one quarter and one third of Israeli exports. In 2008, diamond exports were valued at $19.4 billion with a net value of approximately $10 billion — far exceeding even the gross value of electronic or pharmaceutical exports.
The diamond industry in Israel adds 5 percent to the GDP and is a significant source of the revenue needed to sustain Israel's occupations, siege on Gaza and illegal settlements.
Israel's occupation of Palestinian land and the brutal subjugation of the Palestinian people places a heavy burden on Israeli government finances. According to US government statistics, Israel's military expenditures consume more than 7 percent of the GDP, or approximately $16 billion per year (CIA World Factbook - Israel).
While American military aid of $3 billion per year is significant, the bulk of the money needed to sustain the many facets of Israeli hegemony has to be extracted from the economy in taxes of one form or another.
However, American consumers contribute more than the value of Washington's aid package to the Israeli economy through the purchase of Israeli diamonds. According to the Israeli diamond industry website, approximately 50 percent of all diamonds bought in the US come from Israel ("The Israeli diamond industry - A leading center of the diamond world").
The US is Israel's most important diamond export market, accounting for roughly 40 percent of exports. In 2010 the net value of Israeli diamond exports to America was $5.8 billion ("IDI plans its largest participation at JCK Las Vegas," Diamond World website, 17 May 2011).
Israel's economy, to a large extent isolated from its natural markets in neighboring Arab states, is heavily reliant on the export of goods and services to Europe, the US and Asia. Israeli planners have long recognized the need for high-value, export-orientated industries that would draw in the foreign currency necessary to sustain the Zionist project in Palestine. http://www.counte...
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In a Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign organized protest against the...
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In a Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign organized protest against the propaganda exercise by the Israeli Embassy in Filmbase, "a resource centre for filmmakers" based in Dublin, protesters were forcibly removed from outside that establishment whilst peacefully protesting by heavy-handed Gardai shortly after the arrival of Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade; Eamon Gilmore and the Zionist Minister for Justice and Equality and Minister for Defence Alan Shatter who presumably didn't want to hear the cries of "shame, Shame, Shame" for their blatant support for a blatant display of hasbara. In 2005 a director of the Israeli foreign ministry stated that "We see culture as a hasbara (propaganda) tool of the first rank, and do not differentiate between propaganda and culture." Filmbase has sold out to the Israeli regime by offering itself as a vehicle for this propaganda. It has sacrificed the power of culture to the culture of power. http://www.ipsc.ie/
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Diamonds are Israel's number one export commodity, accounting for betwee...
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Diamonds are Israel's number one export commodity, accounting for between one quarter and one third of Israeli exports. In 2008, diamond exports were valued at $19.4 billion with a net value of approximately $10 billion — far exceeding even the gross value of electronic or pharmaceutical exports.
The diamond industry in Israel adds 5 percent to the GDP and is a significant source of the revenue needed to sustain Israel's occupations, siege on Gaza and illegal settlements.
Israel's occupation of Palestinian land and the brutal subjugation of the Palestinian people places a heavy burden on Israeli government finances. According to US government statistics, Israel's military expenditures consume more than 7 percent of the GDP, or approximately $16 billion per year (CIA World Factbook - Israel).
While American military aid of $3 billion per year is significant, the bulk of the money needed to sustain the many facets of Israeli hegemony has to be extracted from the economy in taxes of one form or another.
However, American consumers contribute more than the value of Washington's aid package to the Israeli economy through the purchase of Israeli diamonds. According to the Israeli diamond industry website, approximately 50 percent of all diamonds bought in the US come from Israel ("The Israeli diamond industry - A leading center of the diamond world").
The US is Israel's most important diamond export market, accounting for roughly 40 percent of exports. In 2010 the net value of Israeli diamond exports to America was $5.8 billion ("IDI plans its largest participation at JCK Las Vegas," Diamond World website, 17 May 2011).
Israel's economy, to a large extent isolated from its natural markets in neighboring Arab states, is heavily reliant on the export of goods and services to Europe, the US and Asia. Israeli planners have long recognized the need for high-value, export-orientated industries that would draw in the foreign currency necessary to sustain the Zionist project in Palestine. http://www.counte...
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Dark Secrets inside Bohemian Grove by Alex Jones?? a must watch!!!!!
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