Nadene Goldfoot
BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) through the Portland City Council is attacking Caterpillar because they sold bulldozers to Israel. In March 2006, the City of Portland’s Socially Responsible Investments (SRI) Committee voted 4-2 to recommend putting Caterpillar on the city’s “Do Not Buy” list.
They will discuss it again tomorrow. "Caterpillar Inc., is an American corporation which designs, develops, engineers, manufactures, markets and sells machinery, engines, financial products and insurance to customers via a worldwide dealer network." Now BDS wants to keep everyone from buying Caterpillar products. This is boycotting Caterpillar, a very large and important industry who are located in Illinois and California.
For the 15th consecutive year, Caterpillar Inc. was named as a Best Global Brand by Interbrand, with a ranking of #82 and an overall brand value of $5.425B. In other words, it's an important commodity in our American economic health.
Caterpillar is known for its tractors. It so happens that the armored bulldozer is a basic tool of combat engineering. These combat engineering vehicles combine the earth moving capabilities of the bulldozer with armor which protects the vehicle and its operator in or near combat. Most are civilian bulldozers modified by addition of vehicle armor/military equipment, but some are tanks stripped of armament and fitted with a dozer blade. Some tanks have bulldozer blades while retaining their armament, but this does not make them armored bulldozers as such, because combat remains the primary role — earth moving is a secondary task.
Caterpillar has sold its equipment to armies before. The British used a modified Caterpillar in WWII. " This was a conventional Caterpillar D8 bulldozer fitted with armor to protect the driver and the engine. The bulldozers were produced in preparation for the Battle of Normandy with the tasks of clearing the invasion beaches of obstacles and quickly making roads accessible by clearing rubble and filling in bomb craters".
Because Israel has had this experience, it has been able to help the USA. "During the first Gulf war the USA purchased tractor protection kits (TPK) from the Israel Military Industries (IMI) for their Caterpillar D7 bulldozers. The armored bulldozers were mainly used in mine clearing applications. During the preparation to the war in Iraq in 2003 the United States Army purchased several D9 armor kits from the IDF and used them to produce similarly fortified D9s. These have been used to clear destroyed vehicles from roads, dig moats, erect earthen-barriers, and construct field fortifications. D9s have also been used to raze houses which sheltered insurgent snipers. Military reports on the Conflict in Iraq say that the D9s were found very effective and "received highly favorable reviews from all that benefited from their use".
Caterpillar Inc., formerly (1925–86) Caterpillar Tractor Company, is a major American manufacturer of earth-moving, construction, agricultural, and materials-handling equipment. Its headquarters are in Peoria, Illinois.
Caterpillar Inc. now makes tractors, trucks, loaders, excavators, graders, scrapers, and other heavy machines used in agriculture, construction, mining, logging, and industrial warehousing. The company also makes diesel and gasoline engines for use in trucks, locomotives, ships and boats, and electricity-generating systems. More than one-half of the company’s sales are to customers outside of the United States." From the company's plants in Illinois, the bulldozers are shipped throughout the country and the world.. Possibly not for long, though, since BDS wants to keep people from buying their goods.
Though BDS started in 1945, "almost every statement by BDS exponents claim that the movement originated in a July 9, 2005, “call… by Palestinian civil society organizations for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel and for academic and cultural boycott of Israel.” This followed the establishment of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) in Ramallah on April 6, 2004. The “Call” is portrayed as a response to Israel’s unwillingness to submit to a “ruling” of the International Court of Justice condemning Israel’s security barrier (that ruling was an advisory opinion that Israel was under no obligation accept)."
Now this group is using Caterpillar's sales to Israel as reason to boycott Caterpillar. BDS is simply a way of attacking Israel since Israel's Middle Eastern neighbors lost wars they had brought on in 1947-49, 1956, 1967, 1973, etc, etc, in other forms such as Intifadas.
The United States is the major friend of Israel as always has been, being the first to vote YES when they were admitted into the UN after coming from the League of Nations. Israel and the USA share information, morality and ideals.
What this Portland City Council is doing is going against their own Oregon Governor and their country in NOT embracing Israel as a friend in need. They are also interfering with Caterpillar Inc., decisions to sell to Israel. The lives of 7.7 million Israelis are being denied some of their safety needs, and thousands of workers for Caterpillar will possibly lose their jobs when the USA is trying to get people work.
How high and mighty the City Council will feel to interfere with something they know nothing about. They are saying that Israel is bad by barring an important company from doing business with them and not only do this to punish but to force them to do the City Council's will.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/bdshistory.html
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Caterpillar-Inchttp://www.wweek.com/news/2015/10/28/portlands-obscure-human-rights-commission-sparks-anger-with-israel-palestine-vote/
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| This is an armored IDF Caterpillar D9R called "Teddy Bear" in Israel. Its armor allows it to work under heavy fire. |
They will discuss it again tomorrow. "Caterpillar Inc., is an American corporation which designs, develops, engineers, manufactures, markets and sells machinery, engines, financial products and insurance to customers via a worldwide dealer network." Now BDS wants to keep everyone from buying Caterpillar products. This is boycotting Caterpillar, a very large and important industry who are located in Illinois and California.
For the 15th consecutive year, Caterpillar Inc. was named as a Best Global Brand by Interbrand, with a ranking of #82 and an overall brand value of $5.425B. In other words, it's an important commodity in our American economic health.
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| IDF D9L involved in the Battle of Jenin during Operation Defensive Shield 2002 |
Caterpillar is known for its tractors. It so happens that the armored bulldozer is a basic tool of combat engineering. These combat engineering vehicles combine the earth moving capabilities of the bulldozer with armor which protects the vehicle and its operator in or near combat. Most are civilian bulldozers modified by addition of vehicle armor/military equipment, but some are tanks stripped of armament and fitted with a dozer blade. Some tanks have bulldozer blades while retaining their armament, but this does not make them armored bulldozers as such, because combat remains the primary role — earth moving is a secondary task.
Caterpillar has sold its equipment to armies before. The British used a modified Caterpillar in WWII. " This was a conventional Caterpillar D8 bulldozer fitted with armor to protect the driver and the engine. The bulldozers were produced in preparation for the Battle of Normandy with the tasks of clearing the invasion beaches of obstacles and quickly making roads accessible by clearing rubble and filling in bomb craters".
Because Israel has had this experience, it has been able to help the USA. "During the first Gulf war the USA purchased tractor protection kits (TPK) from the Israel Military Industries (IMI) for their Caterpillar D7 bulldozers. The armored bulldozers were mainly used in mine clearing applications. During the preparation to the war in Iraq in 2003 the United States Army purchased several D9 armor kits from the IDF and used them to produce similarly fortified D9s. These have been used to clear destroyed vehicles from roads, dig moats, erect earthen-barriers, and construct field fortifications. D9s have also been used to raze houses which sheltered insurgent snipers. Military reports on the Conflict in Iraq say that the D9s were found very effective and "received highly favorable reviews from all that benefited from their use".
Caterpillar Inc., formerly (1925–86) Caterpillar Tractor Company, is a major American manufacturer of earth-moving, construction, agricultural, and materials-handling equipment. Its headquarters are in Peoria, Illinois.
Caterpillar Inc. now makes tractors, trucks, loaders, excavators, graders, scrapers, and other heavy machines used in agriculture, construction, mining, logging, and industrial warehousing. The company also makes diesel and gasoline engines for use in trucks, locomotives, ships and boats, and electricity-generating systems. More than one-half of the company’s sales are to customers outside of the United States." From the company's plants in Illinois, the bulldozers are shipped throughout the country and the world.. Possibly not for long, though, since BDS wants to keep people from buying their goods.
Though BDS started in 1945, "almost every statement by BDS exponents claim that the movement originated in a July 9, 2005, “call… by Palestinian civil society organizations for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel and for academic and cultural boycott of Israel.” This followed the establishment of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) in Ramallah on April 6, 2004. The “Call” is portrayed as a response to Israel’s unwillingness to submit to a “ruling” of the International Court of Justice condemning Israel’s security barrier (that ruling was an advisory opinion that Israel was under no obligation accept)."
Now this group is using Caterpillar's sales to Israel as reason to boycott Caterpillar. BDS is simply a way of attacking Israel since Israel's Middle Eastern neighbors lost wars they had brought on in 1947-49, 1956, 1967, 1973, etc, etc, in other forms such as Intifadas.
The United States is the major friend of Israel as always has been, being the first to vote YES when they were admitted into the UN after coming from the League of Nations. Israel and the USA share information, morality and ideals.
What this Portland City Council is doing is going against their own Oregon Governor and their country in NOT embracing Israel as a friend in need. They are also interfering with Caterpillar Inc., decisions to sell to Israel. The lives of 7.7 million Israelis are being denied some of their safety needs, and thousands of workers for Caterpillar will possibly lose their jobs when the USA is trying to get people work.
How high and mighty the City Council will feel to interfere with something they know nothing about. They are saying that Israel is bad by barring an important company from doing business with them and not only do this to punish but to force them to do the City Council's will.
Israel will continue to do as they see fit in order to protect its citizens and need no help from Americans who probably cannot even find Israel on a map. Your country deals with Israel. Your governor is against BDS. This writer is against BDS. I ask, who are you trying to please? Yourselves? The volunteers who brought up such a disgusting issue? Are you out for justice or are you out for votes? It's bad enough when I see a store not carrying Israeli products because of BDS, but now my own home town is trying to harm Israel? Why?
Since when do American cities meddle in International affairs? Isn't that what the Secretary of State's job is? This whole situation reminds me so much of Kristallnacht, November 9th to 10th 1938 in Germany. It's the stopping people from doing business with Jews that's the same.
Update:8:00am Portland time. To answer my own question, the guilty party is a volunteer group called "Portland's Socially Responsible Investments Committee", an offshoot of the Human Rights Commission who is recommending to the City Council whom to include on the "do not buy" list. This volunteer group is a part of Portland churches, activists and a group called "Jewish Voice for Peace." They are really creating more problems, and are the opponents of peace. One of their leaders is Noam Chomsky! They are instigating the BDS. It all started with Portland's Human Rights Commission, which was an independent offshoot of the city's "Office of Equity and Human Rights, who endorsed the proposal to add on to their "do not buy" list to include companies that activists say play a role in the state of Israel's "occupation of Palestine" If you ask me, this is an example of too many cooks spoiling the pot: too many groups finally handing over the reigns to anti-Israelis and the voters not doing their homework!
This in itself is shocking. There never was a country of Palestine to occupy! The land had become part of the Ottoman Empire who lost the War of WWI and all their land except Turkey itself was divided up by the Allies. It was all internationally legal through the League of Nations. Israel, the Jewish National Home, was made internationally legal through the League of Nations. In fact, for years Israel gave over any such assistance to the Palestine Authority PA of Abbas. If Palestinians are not happy they can take up their problems with him. It's too bad that Americans do not bother with such trivialities such as what's real and what's not real when they join such groups. Here we have a case where Jews themselves have joined this terrible bandwagon and twisted thoughts of Noam Chomsky's.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Voice_for_Peace
Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armored_bulldozerSince when do American cities meddle in International affairs? Isn't that what the Secretary of State's job is? This whole situation reminds me so much of Kristallnacht, November 9th to 10th 1938 in Germany. It's the stopping people from doing business with Jews that's the same.
Update:8:00am Portland time. To answer my own question, the guilty party is a volunteer group called "Portland's Socially Responsible Investments Committee", an offshoot of the Human Rights Commission who is recommending to the City Council whom to include on the "do not buy" list. This volunteer group is a part of Portland churches, activists and a group called "Jewish Voice for Peace." They are really creating more problems, and are the opponents of peace. One of their leaders is Noam Chomsky! They are instigating the BDS. It all started with Portland's Human Rights Commission, which was an independent offshoot of the city's "Office of Equity and Human Rights, who endorsed the proposal to add on to their "do not buy" list to include companies that activists say play a role in the state of Israel's "occupation of Palestine" If you ask me, this is an example of too many cooks spoiling the pot: too many groups finally handing over the reigns to anti-Israelis and the voters not doing their homework!
This in itself is shocking. There never was a country of Palestine to occupy! The land had become part of the Ottoman Empire who lost the War of WWI and all their land except Turkey itself was divided up by the Allies. It was all internationally legal through the League of Nations. Israel, the Jewish National Home, was made internationally legal through the League of Nations. In fact, for years Israel gave over any such assistance to the Palestine Authority PA of Abbas. If Palestinians are not happy they can take up their problems with him. It's too bad that Americans do not bother with such trivialities such as what's real and what's not real when they join such groups. Here we have a case where Jews themselves have joined this terrible bandwagon and twisted thoughts of Noam Chomsky's.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Voice_for_Peace
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/bdshistory.html
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Caterpillar-Inchttp://www.wweek.com/news/2015/10/28/portlands-obscure-human-rights-commission-sparks-anger-with-israel-palestine-vote/
when you get a deeper look at who is behind these tactics you can understand how undermined israel really is, and america itself. the who's who of despicableness cuts across the board -- across the pond - across many borders. has been like a very bad case of political/spiritual termites creepily working underground for a long time and now we see the damage and erosion in broad daylight. i have deeply distrusted mr chomsky for a while now. it seems virtually all the talking heads of our day are compromised one way or another.
ReplyDeletei will bless them that bless thee (israel) and curse them who curse thee. something will have to do a total 180* to prevent the curse from going any further and actually reverse it.
me? i think the handwriting is on the wall already, but i'm not God so i don't know all things. i know He does, so i'm watching how these things will continue to play out. i believe the Bible has already called it. (and israel is saved - thank You God for being true to Your Word)..
I'm finding out quickly. I argued through email a long time ago with Noam Chomsky and still have the emails. He and Finkelstein, his friend were a pair who were terribly against Israel. I've known about JStreet and Soros and now just learned of this Jewish Voice For Peace-a piece (whole) of Israel. I was just thinking about you, Andre, and hoping you were not ill or anything as I looked forward to your comments. Nice to hear from you. Wish you were with me at this meeting. Unbelievable! (Usually I get a notice of a comment, and didn't on this. Sure glad I took time to look, anyway.)
ReplyDeletei haven't always had time to read every article but am glad when i do nadene. and glad you found my comment -- we are certainly on the same page as i read the articles and they reflect what i know about israel but also things are shown to me of things i didn't know which only reinforces my understanding of israel's place and standing in the world. if i could i would go to such meeting.
ReplyDeletei think obama will heed (the very bad sunday school teacher) jimmy carter's advice, and pull a nasty on israel while he has the few days left of his own "reign of terror" upon what is decent, moral and righteous -- or he will create an incident that sets up both israel and trump that will prove quite hard to undo. one thing is certain, the un is already extremely biased, and obama will have their rapid approval to move his hand in some form or fashion against israel.
you and i were born into such a time as this........
i'm thankful that the Ancient of Days has taught my heart and mind to trust His Heart and Mind -- the very Word of God that He spoke long ago---to trust HIM over the fickle and foolish-even outright diabolical- intentions of people who for this present moment are called the powers that be (or at the very least wannabees).
and i'm glad God has the last Word on it all ;)
i hope trump puts john bolton in the secretary of state position. he is a friend of israel..in word and deed...and calls it like he sees it about those "powers that be".....