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Tuesday 22 February 2011

The apartheid state of Israel?

When I saw this headline 'Israeli sues Coca Cola for containing alcohol' I worried that an Israeli Jew was causing problems that would give an excuse to the anti-Zionist and often anti-Semitic media to have a feeding frenzy. However it seems that the story is a little more interesting as the Israeli in question is a Muslim. Globes report thus:
'An Israeli Muslim filed a NIS 1.2 billion class action suit against The Central Bottling Company Group Ltd. (the Israel franchisee for Coca Cola) in the Jerusalem District Court today for compensation for mental anguish and infringing the independent choices of the individual.

The plaintiff, an Israeli Muslim, filed the suit following publication on the web last week of what is apparently the secret recipe of Coca Cola, and which allegedly contains alcohol. The class action suit was filed by Advs. Hani Tannus, Ofir Cohen, and Mahmud Machjana.

Alcohol is forbidden by Islam, and the plaintiff cites he has been unwittingly drinking alcohol for years. He therefore claims Coca Cola is guilty of misleading consumers, infringing the independent choices of the individual, and causing huge mental anguish.

The plaintiff says that his class action suit comprises NIS 1,000 compensation for each of the 1.2 million Muslims living in Israel.

The suit said, "This is one of the greatest deceptions in the history of consumer affairs, when a company ignores the existence of alcohol as an ingredient despite being aware that the Muslim world abstains from products like these. This is a very serious matter and it certainly won't be the last in the world in light of the fraud.'
Note the names of the firm of lawyers he is using: Hani Tannus, Ofir Cohen, and Mahmud Machjana. That would seem to be an almost definite Jew (Ofir Cohen as most, but not all, Cohen's are Jewish), an almost certain Muslim (Mahmud Machjana) and another. Israel is not an apartheid state; Jews, Muslims and Christians live and work together in relative peace - unlike in most Muslim countries where Christians and Jews live in fear of attack and discrimination.

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