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Occupation Industries: The Israeli Industrial Zones
http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=3477Date Written: 2009-12-02 Publisher: Corporate Watch Year Published: 2009 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX11532 In a climate in which the call for a consumer boycott of Israeli goods is finally gaining strength, one area of Israel's economy is, as yet, surprisingly under-researched. Most of Israel's industrial zones in the West Bank are connected to illegal residential settlements and provide an indispensable economic backbone to the local settler economy. Business areas like the industrial zones are at the forefront of Israel's brutal occupation of Palestine, facilitating ethnic cleansing and acting hand-in-hand with the Israeli state in their quest for territorial dominance. Subject Headings |