Too Perfect
Stories like this make it worthwhile to come back from Spring Break. Only from the washed-out, consequences-don't-matter, feel-good, wannabe-1960s-social activist, Israel-bashing religious Left could we get something like this:
"This is really, really good news," declared National Council of Churches USA General Secretary Bob Edgar in response to Tuesday's announcement of the end of the three-year consumer boycott of Taco Bell... the Coalition of Immokalee Workers... and Taco Bell confirmed their agreement to work together to address the wage sand working conditions of farm workers in the Florida tomato industry... "It's good news for another set of workers who have been exploited, and for the religious community, which has been so active in the boycott. I know the NCC's President, Bishop Thomas Hoyt, Jr., who took this on as one of his priority issues, is especially pleased."
Israeli withdraws from territories justifiably occupied in a defensive war, provides money and support to a population that launched an ethnic war at the hieght of peace negotiations, frees killers, and lowers the physical barriers that they had erected to dampen that war, even at horrific costs to their own people. But that's not enough to convince them to stop attacking and boycotting Israel. But let some health-code-violating, worker-exploiting, multinational corporation promise to pay half a penny more per moldy, overripe tomato, and suddenly it's yo quiero crappy Pepsi subsidiary. One begins to wonder if there's some other dynamic driving their opposition to Israel.
"This is really, really good news," declared National Council of Churches USA General Secretary Bob Edgar in response to Tuesday's announcement of the end of the three-year consumer boycott of Taco Bell... the Coalition of Immokalee Workers... and Taco Bell confirmed their agreement to work together to address the wage sand working conditions of farm workers in the Florida tomato industry... "It's good news for another set of workers who have been exploited, and for the religious community, which has been so active in the boycott. I know the NCC's President, Bishop Thomas Hoyt, Jr., who took this on as one of his priority issues, is especially pleased."
Israeli withdraws from territories justifiably occupied in a defensive war, provides money and support to a population that launched an ethnic war at the hieght of peace negotiations, frees killers, and lowers the physical barriers that they had erected to dampen that war, even at horrific costs to their own people. But that's not enough to convince them to stop attacking and boycotting Israel. But let some health-code-violating, worker-exploiting, multinational corporation promise to pay half a penny more per moldy, overripe tomato, and suddenly it's yo quiero crappy Pepsi subsidiary. One begins to wonder if there's some other dynamic driving their opposition to Israel.
