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by Bassam Tawil • January 11,
2019 at 5:00 am
- "Rami Levy does
not discriminate on the basis of ethnicity, gender, or
religion when hiring and promoting employees. All employees,
Palestinians and Israelis, are treated equally and receive
equal benefits. Salaries are based solely on one's position
and performance. My goal for all Rami Levy employees is to
have the same opportunity to succeed." — Rami Levy, owner
of Israel's third-largest supermarket chain, half of whose
4,000 workers, he says, are Palestinians and Israeli Arabs.
- Palestinian
investors, according to Fatah official Hatem Abdel Qader Eid,
could have prevented Rami Levy from building his new mall had
they invested in the construction of a Palestinian shopping
center. "It's true that there are wealthy Palestinian
businessmen..."
- Now that the
campaign has failed to prevent the opening of the mall, Fatah
and its followers have turned to outright threats and
violence. The threats are being directed toward Palestinian
shoppers and Palestinian merchants who rented space in the new
mall.
- If a Palestinian who
buys Israeli milk is a traitor in the eyes of Fatah, it is not
difficult to imagine the fate of any Palestinian who would
dare to discuss compromise with Israel. If he is lucky, he
will have a close encounter with a firebomb. If he is not
lucky, he will be hanged in a public square.
Rami Levy,
a Jewish Israeli businessman, has just built a shopping mall in
east Jerusalem and most of its workers and customers are Arabs.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's ruling Fatah
faction has responded to the mall enterprise in a manner that
showcases how Palestinian leaders continue to torpedo benefits to
their people. Pictured: A Rami Levy supermarket branch in western
Jerusalem. (Image source: Yoninah/Wikimedia Commons)
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's
ruling Fatah faction is angry. It seems a Jewish Israeli
businessman has just built a shopping mall in east Jerusalem and
most of its workers and customers are Arabs.
Fatah leaders have called for boycotting the mall.
Fatah, which is often described in the Western media
as a moderate faction, has responded to the mall enterprise in a
manner that showcases how Palestinian leaders continue to torpedo
benefits to their people.
Where in the world would any leader condemn a
project that provides jobs to hundreds of his or her people? Where
in the world would any leader call on his or her people to boycott
a shopping mall or a supermarket that offers competitive prices for
clothes and food? Where in the world would a leader describe the
opening of a commercial project that benefits his or her people as
a catastrophe ("nakba")?
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