Syrians Opening Trade With Israel

[WiseCookie]

Apple export to Syria to begin Sunday
By DANIEL KENNEMER
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</td></tr></tbody></table>Druze apple growers on the Golan Heights are expected to begin sending shipments of apples to Syria on Sunday, Fruit Growers Association of Israel Director-General Giora Sela said Wednesday, crediting the development to the success of last year's arrangement and the joint efforts of the Agriculture Ministry, the Produce Council and the Defense Ministry.
The 10,000 apples slated to be shipped to Syria over the coming weeks will help ease the fruit surplus within Israel, which was exacerbated by extended closures of the Karni checkpoint with the Gaza Strip, Sela said.



Source : www.jpost.com

There are two things that I would like to know. First of all, is this on the basis of religion or what ? Second of all, I thought Syria was fighting Israel to the last breathe and it was calling itself the progressor of arabism ?




So basically, Syria is cutting deals with the Israelis who will export apples to syria from it's own territory. I'm just baffled by this and shocked. I thought Lebanon had sisterly ties with Syria, but apparently only they are allowed to export their 3rd class fruit to Lebanon but we're not allowed to export any of our products. We have farmers dying of hunger and syria is buying fruit from Israel, what is this ? I'm lost for words. It just shows the real intentions of the syria regime.

PS : I wonder what would happen if the Lebanese tried importing fruit from Shebaa

[Lebanese_N_Proud]

You dont have to be shocked. Syria has been trying to sign peace with Israel since the days of Hafez.

As for the Lebanese, ye3neh, these days if a Lebanese utters the words "peace" and "Israel" in the same sentence, he's labeled a "pro-Israeli", "Zionist", "traitor", etc etc.

Every country should do what is in its interest, and our best interest is peace with our neighbors and neutrality.

Unfortunately, it'll probably take another war for us to wake up out of this deep sleep.

By the way, nothing beats the Lebanese apple.

[حسن]

Originally Posted by WiseCookie

There are two things that I would like to know. First of all, is this on the basis of religion or what ? Second of all, I thought Syria was fighting Israel to the last breathe and it was calling itself the progressor of arabism ?




So basically, Syria is cutting deals with the Israelis who will export apples to syria from it's own territory. I'm just baffled by this and shocked. I thought Lebanon had sisterly ties with Syria, but apparently only they are allowed to export their 3rd class fruit to Lebanon but we're not allowed to export any of our products. We have farmers dying of hunger and syria is buying fruit from Israel, what is this ? I'm lost for words. It just shows the real intentions of the syria regime.

PS : I wonder what would happen if the Lebanese tried importing fruit from Shebaa

Il faut comparer ce qui est comparable...
The apples imported by Syria are sold by Syrian citizens under israeli occupation.
Chebaa farms are not exploited by their owners, the lebanese citizens of Chebaa.
So it is not at all the same case.

[حسن]

Originally Posted by Lebanese_N_Proud

You dont have to be shocked. Syria has been trying to sign peace with Israel since the days of Hafez.

As for the Lebanese, ye3neh, these days if a Lebanese utters the words "peace" and "Israel" in the same sentence, he's labeled a "pro-Israeli", "Zionist", "traitor", etc etc.

Please, would you stop playing the victim.

Originally Posted by Lebanese_N_Proud

Every country should do what is in its interest, and our best interest is peace with our neighbors and neutrality.

This is out of the main topic of this thread. Anyway, our interest is to have valid garanties. Only HA arms protect my family in south lebanon.
I already write about this in http://www.lfpm.org/forum/showpost.php?t=13385&p=239130
You'll finf in the same thread many other posts explaining difficulties to have peace with israel

Originally Posted by Lebanese_N_Proud

Unfortunately, it'll probably take another war for us to wake up out of this deep sleep.

Hope that israel has this refexion and search for peace. But this is not for tomorrow.

Originally Posted by Lebanese_N_Proud

By the way, nothing beats the Lebanese apple.

I agree with you. South lebanon is konwn to be called Iklim Al Tooffah...

[WiseCookie]

Originally Posted by حسن

Il faut comparer ce qui est comparable...
The apples imported by Syria are sold by Syrian citizens under israeli occupation.
Chebaa farms are not exploited by their owners, the lebanese citizens of Chebaa.
So it is not at all the same case.

How's it not the same case when ur removing economic burden of Israel ? These people are paying taxes to Israel and are therefore indirectly funding the Israelis. They're members of the fruit grower's association of Israel. Enough said.

Lebanese_N_Proud, I know and everything happens over Lebanon's back.

[simsam]

Originally Posted by Lebanese_N_Proud

You dont have to be shocked. Syria has been trying to sign peace with Israel since the days of Hafez.

As for the Lebanese, ye3neh, these days if a Lebanese utters the words "peace" and "Israel" in the same sentence, he's labeled a "pro-Israeli", "Zionist", "traitor", etc etc.

Every country should do what is in its interest, and our best interest is peace with our neighbors and neutrality.

Unfortunately, it'll probably take another war for us to wake up out of this deep sleep.

By the way, nothing beats the Lebanese apple.

I agree with you on the last sentence only :) lebanese apple is good
As for the apple purchase, this has been going on for decades, it is done to show the committment of the syrians government to the syrian residents in Golan heights. So nothing newwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

[حسن]

Originally Posted by حسن

Il faut comparer ce qui est comparable...
The apples imported by Syria are sold by Syrian citizens under israeli occupation.
Chebaa farms are not exploited by their owners, the lebanese citizens of Chebaa.
So it is not at all the same case.

Originally Posted by WiseCookie

How's it not the same case when ur removing economic burden of Israel ? These people are paying taxes to Israel and are therefore indirectly funding the Israelis. They're members of the fruit grower's association of Israel. Enough said.

Dear Sir,

You seem to only see what you believe. I don't know about israeli taxes, even if I suppose that there is no taxes on exported products...

Anyway, the syrian decision concerned syrian citizens of Golan and it helps them to stay in their land.

Suppose that there are apples in Chebaa farms, buying these products from israel will not help any lebanese citizen. Contrary, this is bad for the lebanese apple production.

I don't know why you remind me with your arguments the FM propaganda, they are always searching "la petite bête" on GMA or HN. They don't hesitate to use ridiculous argument. If your post is to criticize Syrian government, you can post it directly to a syrian official website. Otherwise, what is your goal ?

[LebArmenian]

dude , this is OLD news , i remember reading about this ages ago , syria importing the goods of joulan , since the citizens of jiulan refused to get the israeli citizenship
+ i dont find anything suspicious about it ,syria is letting its citizens in joulan live with a dream that they still belong to syria

[Tanios]

Originally Posted by LebArmenian

dude , this is OLD news , i remember reading about this ages ago , syria importing the goods of joulan , since the citizens of jiulan refused to get the israeli citizenship
+ i dont find anything suspicious about it ,syria is letting its citizens in joulan live with a dream that they still belong to syria

There was a study something like 1 year ago by the UN. It has been spoken about in the foum, I can't find it back. A huge majority of the golan inhabitents have taken the israeli citizenship and an even huger majority of them are 200% against returning to Syria!! I will find the thread and post a link to it .

[Big_Brother]

Hassan the problem is that this sale of apples from Golan will be used as a cover up to sell apples or maybe other products by israeli settlers.
Bottom line, Syria is helping the economy of Israel and helping Israeli settlements, not syrian people under occupation.
I don't think you would agree with this.