#2 The Saudi Gazette reported that a local inspection team, acting on a tip, confiscated approximately 300 pounds of persimmon that had Israel stickers.
Nineteen miles from the border, somebody is quite certain that the locals are not just willing, but eager for Israeli products. One wonders if the seller just hadn't got round to relabelling the stuff, or if that was -- very probably -- a selling point worth the risk of getting caught? I ask because the final sentence of the article is a bit of personal experience from the journalist:
When I worked at a kibbutz plastics factory years ago, we made sure that the product being shipped to Saudi Arabia was sent in a box marked “Made in Jordan.” |