West Bank isn't in Israel, but its factories, somehow, are
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Due disclosure: For a long time, my palate, which I'd believed had acquired a sensitivity to food produced in the occupied territories, eagerly consumed large amounts of halva produced at the Achva plant in northern Samaria. How did I, who carefully checks every item on the supermarket shelves to avoid buying products made in the settlements, miss this? Probably because the halva packages state in large letters, "Established in 1929 in Tel Aviv." Eventually, though, I noticed "Barkan industrial zone" on the side of the package.
South Africa's minister of trade and industry, Rob Davies, has recently decided to label all products coming from the settlements as made in the occupied territories. The minister explained that South African consumers should not be misled and made to believe that products from the occupied Palestinian territories are made in Israel. Then again, how many halva aficionados in Cape Town know which side of the Green Line the Barkan industrial zone is on? Achva's English website makes no mention of this. It notes that the company was established in Tel Aviv and there are phone and fax numbers with an 03 area code.
The decision to note the well-known fact that no government of Israel has ever annexed the West Bank to Israel infuriated West Bank resident Avigdor Lieberman. It has been some time since the foreign minister has attacked a country that refused to buy his ministry's information bulletins.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/west-bank-isn-t-in-israel-but-its-factories-somehow-are-1.431824
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