In recent months, Israel’s public broadcaster aired several reports on Israel’s massive problem in exporting fruits, particularly to European markets.
The reports, which indicate what the growers themselves describe as a looming “collapse,” unwittingly testify to the importance of the continuing international boycott of Israel.
“They don’t want our mangoes,” a grower tells Kan 11. “In Europe, they talk to us only if they’re missing something. Only then do they buy from us. If they have an alternative, they avoid it.”
Ronen Alfasi says that most of the crops from his sector used to be exported to Asian countries, but mentions the “logistical problem against the Houthis” as the reason for which “all the logistical lines have changed.” Longer and more expensive routes were sought, Alfasi says, with containers arriving after 90 to 100 days late. “And they came with big quality problems,” he described.
The only remaining market that’s available, Alfasi says, is Russia. Even though he’s losing money as a citrus farmer, he’s exporting to Russia just to cover warehouse expenses.
yall keep promising me israel is gonna collapse but it never does 😞
“yall keep promising me the roman empire is gonna collapse but it never does”
No state lasts forever, least of all an apartheid state with such a resilient resistance movement against it. Israel’s only 78 years old—there’s plenty of living people older than that. It will fall, because Palestinians aren’t going away, and they will continue to want to return.
While Europeans are boycotting Israeli goods their governments make sure to send a few billion euros to make up for it.
clown continent ain’t it? they are perfectly capable of being very independent from the us.