I wrote
Howaida Awad Ahmed
The Arab boycott is one of the most important weapons that the Arabs were forced to deploy for decades against the Zionist movement. The boycott has remained the subject of almost constant dialogue at the Arab and international levels. The boycott has gone through three stages. The first is the boycott of Jewish goods produced in Palestine by the Arab sons of Palestine from 1936. Until 1945, the second included the intervention of the Arab League and the participation of some Arab countries in the boycott from 1945 to 1949, and the third organized the boycott and black lists from 1951 until today, and the headquarters of the main office for the boycott of Israel is in Damascus.
A boycott is a measure that means refusing to buy goods produced by a specific foreign country. The boycott procedure differs from the ban procedure in that it imposes
The last is the governments of the countries themselves, while the boycott is the institutions, companies, and specific interests within the country, and this is done under the influence of the national motive, looking into a given circumstance.
The boycott measure is sometimes described as a measure taken by weak countries whose governments, out of fear, are reluctant to impose economic sanctions on their enemies.
Therefore, this responsibility is transferred from governments to organizations and individuals.
An example of the boycott is the economic boycott that China implemented before its conversion to communism against Japan and other European countries that violated China’s sovereignty and attacked its national independence.
The Arab boycott of Israeli products constitutes the most important card that the Arab League can use to put pressure on Israel. It is known that Israel suffers from isolation in its regional environment and seeks to break out of the blockade impasse to revive economic mechanisms and dynamism centered around dependence on the United States.
We can say that the Arab boycott is a set of measures taken by Arab countries through the Arab League against the state, institutions and individuals in Israel. This measure, as determined by the boycott body of the Arab League, aims to thwart global Zionist plans for economic control over the markets of the Arab world, freeze Israel’s economies, and push them towards deterioration.
This deprived the Israeli economy of the investments and economic benefits that it could have obtained from residing in other countries.
In addition to burdens such as the oil issue, which could have been obtained from neighboring Arab oil markets on better terms instead of importing it from international markets.
It deprived the Israeli economy of exchange relations in its regional environment and imposed on these relations a certain quality, level and limited locations.
It limited the expansion and spread of the Israeli presence in various parts of the world.
Besieging Israeli ambitions. That is, controlling the Arab region and integrating into it, or even forming a regional center.
Global caution against dealing with institutions, goods, capital, and individuals with Israel, whose various activities are linked to the continuing aggression practiced by their state and institutions against the Arabs and refusal to respond to the decisions of the international community.
The boycott system cost Israel more than 50 million dollars until 1956, while the costs rose in 1973 to 300 million dollars annually, according to estimates by experts in the Israeli economy, and until 1981 the losses to the Israeli economy amounted to 45 billion dollars in the field of trade and investments, and it rose to 57 billion in 1996, according to Walt Tritan. Former Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
What increases the effects of the boycott is what the Arab countries agreed upon at the meeting of foreign ministers in March 1997, because according to the Secretary-General of the Arab League at the time, Dr. Ismat Abdel Majeed,
The Arab boycott of Israel was imposed for reasons of aggression and the Israeli occupation of Arab lands. When these reasons disappear, it is possible to talk about the issue of the boycott. It was striking that the boycott was on three levels: direct, indirect, and denial of investment.
Israel did not fulfill its previous promises to reduce military spending by about 1.6 billion dollars, but rather it reached one billion, and the image of Israel was strengthened as a country centered primarily on the military establishment, which received a large part of the increase, which exhausted the Israeli economy amid the atmosphere charged with tension with Syria and southern Lebanon and the ongoing confrontation with the Palestinians.
The Israeli economic growth rate began to decrease in 1996 and decreased to 3% in 1997, which is the lowest rate in years. This is due to several factors, including the decline in industrial production, as well as investments in construction, the import of production machines, the decline in tourism, as well as the mismanagement of monetary and banking policy, and the decline in stock market prices by about 18%. Since Netanyahu's election.
The trade deficit increased by about five billion dollars in 1996, and the proportion of imports increased faster than exports.
In 1994, the percentage of poor people in the population was 18%, of the total number of families in Israel. In 1996, it decreased to 16%, and the main change is that the Arab population was included in the survey for the first time, and it included towns with a population of less than ten thousand people.
Closed racism has emerged in the lack of inclusion of Arabs in the hunger survey, which explains the visit to the hungry, in addition to the fact that the increase in the percentage of families is due to the state’s support for incomes for single-child families by 50%, and since Arab families have many children, they did not benefit from the budgets previously allocated to fighting hunger. Even a fifth of the people of Israel are hungry, while its national product amounts to one hundred billion dollars, at a rate of 17 thousand dollars per capita.
The policy of expanding settlements led to a rise in the inflation rate, estimated at about 12%, as well as a rise in interest rates on local bonds and on commercial loans.
Since 1951, that is, since the start of the official boycott, the Arab boycott of Israel has caused material losses estimated at more than 64 billion dollars since that year, 83,000 companies until 1982.
Unfortunately, some Arab countries helped Israel to emerge from its isolation and restore its diplomatic relationship with the world, as many countries that had severed their relationship with Israel since the 1967 aggression or after the Glorious October War of 1973 were encouraged to restore these relations, after they saw the Arab countries rushing towards Tel Aviv. To establish relationships with her.
Israel took advantage of this opportunity to benefit from strengthening economic, political, and security cooperation relations with these countries, as happened with Turkey, India, China, Russia, many Islamic countries, Non-Aligned Movement countries, and many African countries.
The situation remained this way in the global openness to Israel as a result of the lifting of the boycott against it, accompanied by Arab trade and investment openness towards Israel through the agreements that some Arab countries signed directly with Israel in the field of joint projects and trade exchange, or through some Arab businessmen who salivated over the Israeli market. Or out of greed for Israeli technology and Jewish capital, Israel began participating in Arab trade fairs and exporting its goods to some Arab markets. Despite the enemy’s war on Gaza at the present time, some Arab governments continued to maintain trade exchange with all comfort.
But all the Arab peoples taught the enemy a strong lesson in boycotting Jewish goods and everyone who supports them.
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