The article is explaining
how the executive of the French company Orange, Stéphane Richard went to Israel to meet with Prime Minister,
Benjamin Netanyahu to apologize. The
article covers how there is a “rumor” that companies are boycotting
Israel. The company Orange was said to
be pulling out Israel as a part of a growing movement to boycott companies that
operate in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. The Orange Company wanted to make it totally
clear that it has never supported any kind of boycott against Israel. He went on to say, “Isreal is a fantastic
place to be in the digital industry, and, of course, our will is to strengthen
and to keep on investing here.”
The Prime Minister goes on to say, “We seek a genuine and
secure peace with our Palestinian neighbors, but that can only be achieved
through direct negotiations between the parties without preconditions. It will not be achieved through boycotts and
through threats of boycotts.”
This article applies to the road map to peace between Israel
and Palestine. These are benchmarks
designed to move Israelis and Palestinians towards the creation of a
Palestinian state that exists in peace with Israel. This was intended to be done in a three-year period. The two countries are still working towards
this; however, it is still a work in progress.
The road map idea has good intentions. It also calls for progress toward peace
agreements between Israel and Lebanon, and Israel and Syria. The suggested timetable was for peace by the
end of 2005. This means that this plan
has obvious hiccups. It is supposed to
be based on performance and would move forward only when they have been
met.
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