As Israel carries out yet another attack on Gaza jewellers worldwide
continue to conceal the fact that blood diamonds are supporting one of
the most abhorrent and prolonged injustices against a defenceless
indigenous people. Israel’s “prominent and central position”
in the global diamond industry has ensured that diamonds which fund war
crimes in Palestine evade regulation. Consumers have been kept in the
dark and lied to about the extent of the blood diamond problem.
The fact that the Israeli diamond industry is estimated to generate about $1 billion/yr. in funding for the Israeli military should have meant diamonds from Israel were regarded as blood diamonds and banned years ago.
The diamond industry in Israel is the cornerstone of the economy that
generates the revenue needed to sustain a belligerent apartheid regime
which commits serious human rights violations on a daily basis and
ignores all attempts by the international community to broker a just and
lasting peace agreement between Israelis and Palestinians.
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1 comment:
Who fabricated the myth of the rarity and purity of diamonds in the first place? I mean, considering the blood and death involved in mining them, that story had to be buried beneath some other myth like "eternal love" to sell.
They created and were all over the romance market and still continue to create ever new reasons to celebrate with diamonds. Anniversary, love, special days, graduation ~ it is a huge sucker market.
Diamonds used to be just another pretty stone along with rubies, emeralds and sapphires. Diamonds are not rare ~ they are found in many locations in vast quantity. They are also fabricated for industrial purposes.
The Israel connection should be obvious to anyone familiar with the BDS movement.
http://www.ism-london.org.uk/114/
http://www.bdssouthafrica.com/2011/06/boycott-campaign-against-israeli-blood.html
http://londonbds.org/2012/02/05/no-valentine-for-israeli-blood-diamonds/
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