Of ocurse I am going to take the opportunity to talk about the Hamas attack on Israel. First, I'd like to talk about my background, or baggage, regarding the country. I have lived in Israel, some years ago. This was not for religious reasons; I spent several months there working on a movie. During pre-production, weeks of location scouting and shooting the movie, I was all over the country, and spent a fair amount of time in the West Bank, where we also shot. This included a lot of places that normal tourists would not see, including predominantly Arab areas such as East Jerusalem, the Arab quarter of the old city, Ramla and the southern part of Jaffa, which is predominantly Arab. It also included heavily Orthodox areas like Mea Shearim. I dealt with Israeli Arabs, Palestinians and Bedouins. Here are a few things I believe I learned there: First of all, the Palestinians I knew were perfectly normal people with the same interest in living a safe, secure
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Secondly, and much more importantly, not even you could possibly believe that Green Eagle's call for a boycott is going to have a shred of effect in the world of commerce. What I said was obviously nothing but pointing out what I believe to be a vile commercial abuse of the internet. However, I will point out that consumers have no way at all of holding companies responsible for abuses like this, except to withhold their business.
Riiiiight. In this world, it will be gained at an even worse one, if at all. Where are the good companies?
"People who need things are going to buy them;"
Green Eagle needs a through examination of his head, but that doesn't mean he'll buy one.