Palestinians Boycotting Israeli Products In West Bank As Protest
At least 17 businesses have closed in Mishor Adumim, an industrial zone inside the West Bank Jewish settlement, since Palestinians began boycotting its products several months ago.
According to Avi Elkayam, who represents the settlement's 300 factory owners, this is "an insufferable situation," for the Israelis. But Palestinians are doing this with a much-thought strategy.
Palestinians have been trying to end Israeli occupation andform a separate state since the last 40 years. Hundreds of meetings have been held betweent he two sides to resolve the issue, but in vain.
Palestinians are hopeful that the boycott will help them prove their point and they will relaise their goal of a separate statehood peacefully. The boycott plan was started at the grass-roots level but has increasingly been embraced by the Palestinian leadership.
"We are definitely committed to a path of nonviolent resistance and defiance in the face of the settlement enterprise, and we are defiantly expressing our right to boycott those products and I believe it is working," said Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad.
