The PA’s efforts to strengthen its own economy by boycotting that of
The Palestinian Authority has legislated harsh laws against buying and selling Jewish-made products from
The Wafa news agency in the Palestinian Authority reports that Arab vendors in Jenin have found clever ways to sell Jewish-made products, for which the demand is apparently still high. They have simply printed up their own “Made in the PA” stickers, which they gum on to the Jewish-made products.
Arab affairs correspondent Haggai Huberman notes that police in Jenin have begun a comprehensive operation to ferret out the Jewish goods from the city’s markets. During their searches they found bottles of oil manufactured by Jews adorned with the forged PA stickers. “They are trying to be wise guys,” the local police commander said, “but we caught them!” Even he acknowledged, however, that some have been successful in selling Jewish-made goods.
PA chairman and Fatah leader Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) and other senior PA officials have called on their public to abide by the boycott – though it is in blatant violation of the Oslo Agreements with
Some officials, both in the PA and Jordan, have even called for the boycott to be extended to all Israeli-made goods. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/news.aspx/137504