UK and Israel join to Stop IRAN

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UK and Israel join forces to stop Iran gaining nuclear weapons - Foreign Minister Liz Truss and her Israeli counterpart say they are ‘transforming our close friendship into an even closer partnership’ 

By Ben Riley-Smith, Political Editor28 November 2021

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The UK and Israel’s foreign ministers have declared that they will work “night and day” to stop Iran getting a nuclear weapon as they sign a “historic” 10-year plan for deepening ties.  In a joint article for The Daily Telegraph (see below), Liz Truss, the Foreign Secretary, and Yair Lapid, Israel’s foreign affairs minister, preview their new “memorandum of understanding”.  

The agreement, which will be signed on Monday, will enable the UK and Israel to work more closely on issues such as cybersecurity, technology development, defence, trade and science.   It will see Israel become one of the UK’s most trusted allies in thwarting cyber attacks, according to a Foreign Office insider. Talks on a trade deal are also set to begin early next year.

 “We believe that a democracy rooted in freedom - which empowers citizens with the opportunity to innovate, create and fulfil their dreams - is the finest form of government,” the two ministers write.  One of the most eye-catching aspects of their joint piece is a renewed commitment to stop Tehran ever getting nuclear weapons - a subject of talks that start again this week.

Negotiators from the UK will join those of other signatories to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal as talks restart in Vienna today.  The original agreement was struck in 2015 and saw Iran agree to stop pursuing its nuclear programme in return for economic sanctions being lifted by the other countries.  However, Donald Trump withdrew America from the deal during his presidency and reimposed sanctions, prompting Iran to push ahead with its nuclear advancement once again.  Since Joe Biden has taken over the White House there have been hopes of a renewed deal with Tehran but talks remain at an impasse.

The original signatories to the JCPOA were China, France, Germany, Iran, Russia, the UK, the US and the European Union.  Barack Obama hailed the original agreement as one of his most significant foreign policy achievements but Mr Trump dubbed it the “worst deal ever” and made it a campaign issue in the 2016 election, which he won.

Israel and the UK have a trading relationship worth £5 billion. Rolls-Royce supplies jet engines to Israel’s national airline and the Israeli pharmaceutical giant Teva provides one in six of the NHS’s prescription medicines.

 Ms Truss was closely involved with preparations for trade deal talks as international trade secretary, the role she held until Boris Johnson’s Cabinet reshuffle in September.  Still only two months into her job as Foreign Secretary, Ms Truss has said she wants to put economic diplomacy at the heart of her approach to reshaping Britain’s foreign policy:  

“Many fear the skies are darkening worldwide due to the pandemic, the threat of terrorism and hostile actors seeking the upper hand. But we believe that with the right approach, freedom and democracy will prevail over malign forces.  That is why Israel and the United Kingdom are today coming together in London to take a major step forward: transforming our close friendship into an even closer partnership by formally agreeing a new strategic plan for the next decade spanning cyber, tech, trade and defence.”

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Child Incitement Continues Unabated!!!

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“He never cursed anyone except the Jews, may God burn them,” says the brainwashed Palestinian child about his beloved teacher.

The terrorist who murdered 26-year-old Eliyahu Kay Sunday morning in the Old City of Jerusalem – and injured three others, one critically – was  identified as Fadi Abu-Shkadem, a resident of the Shuafat refugee camp in his 40s, affiliated with Hamas.

He was also a high school teacher in eastern Jerusalem.

This grieving student says he was an “amazing teacher.” He must have been, as he succeeded in winning the children’s love and instilled in them his warped values.

“The truth is pity for this child who was educated in this way,” says Yoseph Haddad, an Israeli-Arab IDF veteran who fights against BDS.

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“Unilever Taking a Licking over Ben and Jerry’s”

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 The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has been asked to downgrade Unilever PLC’s “premium listing” if it does not assert effective control over its Ben & Jerry’s subsidiary.

A joint letter from UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) and the Zionist Advocacy Center to the LSE’s Regulatory Complaints Department comments that Unilever appears to have a rogue division in the United States known as “Ben & Jerry’s Homemade” which has been structured to evade normal corporate governance practices.

The letter notes that Ben & Jerry’s has announced plans to engage in a boycott against Israel that expose Unilever to sanctions under various laws in the United States. Unilever has, however, claimed that its agreement acquiring Ben & Jerry’s recognised the right of Ben & Jerry’s independent Board to take such decisions in direct opposition to Unilever.

Although Unilever’s American subsidiary, Conopco, owns all of the shares of Ben & Jerry’s, Conopco waived its rights to choose nearly all of Ben & Jerry’s Board members. The majority of the Board is self-selecting and answerable to nobody. Conopco reserved the right to appoint Ben & Jerry’s CEO, but authority to set important policies was delegated to its unaccountable Board.

The UK Corporate Governance code states:

“For parent companies with a premium listing, the board should ensure that there is adequate co-operation within the group to enable it to discharge its governance responsibilities under the Code effectively. This includes the communication of the parent company’s purpose, values and strategy.”

Unilever’s position does not appear to comply with this requirement and similar requirements expressed in its own Code of Conduct and its Governance Report.

UKLFI also wrote directly to Unilever’s Chief Legal Officer drawing attention to these problems, but pointing out that Unilever could and should insist that the Ben & Jerry’s Board comply with Unilever’s Code of Business Conduct, as required by the acquisition agreement. This requires full compliance with the laws in force in the places where Unilever subsidiaries trade.

Unilever’s share price has fallen some 11% since Ben & Jerry’s announced its planned boycott, reducing its market capitalisation by over £11 billion. The New York Post has now reported that activist investor, Michael Ashner of Winthrop Capital Partners, has taken a stake in Unilever and is asking US regulators to look into possible violations by the company of its disclosure obligations in failing to report the material risks to its business and valuation arising from Ben & Jerry’s BDS plans.

Jonathan Turner, UKLFI’s Chief Executive, said: “Unilever needs to put its house in order. We have pointed out steps that it can take to mitigate the governance weaknesses resulting from the terms of its acquisition of Ben & Jerry’s. Investors and regulators should draw appropriate conclusions if it fails to take them.”

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Experts Debate how Billion-Dollar Firms will Change Israel

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A critical mass of mega-valued global tech companies based in Israel may create a whole new local ecosystem in the coming years

By SHOSHANNA SOLOMON 3 November 2021, 3:08 pm

The face of Israel’s future economy will be completely different from that of previous decades, experts say, because of a critical mass of billion-dollar tech companies, or unicorns, that have flourished within its borders.

“What we have seen since October 2020, when the surge in valuations of Israeli tech firms started, will lead to a seismic change of Israel’s economy in the coming 10 to 20 years,” Sagi Dagan, VP and head of the Growth, Finance and Strategy Division at the Israel Innovation Authority, said in an interview. The Israel Innovation Authority is in charge of fostering the nation’s tech ecosystem and setting out government policies.

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has underlined the importance of technology and innovation for the survival of businesses, coupled with record-low interest rates and governments propping up their economies with cash injections, has triggered record investments in tech firms globally and has prompted a surge in the global creation of tech unicorns, privately held companies worth at least $1 billion.

Israeli-founded tech unicorns account for some 8% of this global phenomenon, as its entrepreneurs, once known for creating technologies and selling them off quickly to the highest bidder, are now holding on to their fledgling firms in a push to create large and hopefully profitable businesses.

“Israel accounts for some 8% of global unicorns, but for just 0.1% of the global population. So, we are punching some 100 times our weight in the world,” said Aharon Aharon, a former CEO of the Israel Innovation Authority, in a phone interview.

Many of these Israeli founded unicorns are being set up in Israel and managed from Israel. “Twenty years ago, when Israeli startups got big investments from foreign investors, they would get a US manager and they would move their headquarters to the US to be close to their market and their investors,” said Dagan. “Today, this is not the case.”

The pandemic has shown that the closing of business deals and funding can be done completely remotely, and so founders are staying in Israel and growing their companies from here, employing not only core research and development teams of engineers and programmers but also sales and marketing staff, accountants and lawyers.

“This is very different from what was before, and very positive,” Dagan said. There is now a “critical mass” of giant tech firms in Israel, he said, the likes of which not many countries have. “You have the US, China, Israel, the UK, Singapore, and Tokyo. This concentration of firms in Israel will help draw even more unicorns, who will choose to set up their HQ locally. This is leading to the development of a whole new ecosystem, which specializes in providing services to these large tech firms – from managers to lawyers to consultants and banks.”

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Abbas’ Message of Hopelessness at the UN

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• PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ statement to the UN General Assembly on September 24, 2021, was almost identical to Yasser Arafat’s statement at the 2001 Durban Conference. Nothing has changed in the Palestinian message and narrative.
• Citing the “Nakba” (catastrophe), Abbas deliberately inverted history and ignored decades of organized violence by Arab groups and forces against Jewish communities, including massacres of Jews in 1920, 1921, 1929, 1936, and 1938, all aimed at terrorizing the Jewish residents and removing any Jewish presence from the area.
• He misled the General Assembly into believing that General Assembly Resolution 194 (III) created a “right of return” for Palestinians. The truth is that the resolution was a non-obligatory recommendation and did not create legal rights.
• In violation of UN resolutions and international conventions criminalizing the financing of terror, Abbas blatantly and unabashedly defended and justified the PA’s “pay to slay” policy that provides salaries to prisoners guilty of acts of terror and murder, knowing that such payments serve as incentives and encouragement for more acts of terror.
• To come to the UN General Assembly with delusional, misleading, and misguided accusations and threats does not serve the interests of peace and does not advance the chances of a return to peace negotiations one iota.

Anybody reading or listening to the PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ statement to the UN General Assembly on September 24, 2021,¹ could not but be transformed back to the almost identical statement made by then-head of the PLO, Yasser Arafat, at the 2001 Durban Conference.

Evidently, nothing has changed in the Palestinian message and narrative.

Abbas presented the same re-hashing of the familiar Palestinian accusations, clichés, and buzzwords of racism, colonialism, apartheid, nakba, and ethnic cleansing; unceasing whining about having been neglected by the international community; misrepresentation of, and delusional reliance on old, non-binding UN General Assembly resolutions, none of which have any legal authority or practical relevance; and finally their penchant for threatening – whether to continue their “peaceful popular resistance” of rocket-firing, terror infiltration, stabbings, ecological and agricultural terror, or complaining to international juridical bodies.

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