[Marxism] Who Profits from the Occupation

[Daniel Rosenberg <dddrrr84@xxxxxxxxx>]

February saw the launch of the website "Who Profits?"
(http://whoprofits.org/), a website maintained by the Israeli movement
Coalition of Women for Peace
(http://coalitionofwomen.org/home/english). The website presents
clearly and extensively the list of Israeli and multinational
corporations who are financially involved with with the Israeli
occupation of Palestinian territories, whether by the funding of
businesses in illegal settlements or by the supply of services, as
well as military and construction equipment to the system of
occupation in the West Bank and Gaza. The site interface includes a
search engine which allows the search by the company name, its origin
country and even by its annual income and the stock index in which it
is traded. Among the dozens of of companies which are listed on the
site, it is hard not to notice the names of the leading companies in
the Israeli economy, such as the Alon Group, Africa-Israel
Investments, Elbit Systems Ltd, the major banks as well as some
prominent weaponry and technology manufacturers. Not all companies in
the list are known actors in the military-industrial complex: some of
the occupation profiteers include Caterpillar, which provides the
equipment for house demolitions as well as construction of
checkpoints, Hewlett Packard (HP) which provides the Israeli military
with IT, and even Pizza Hut and General Mills, the producer of
Pillsbury, which are dealing heavily with illegal settlements.

The site could be highly valuable for activists who aim towards the
boycott of businesses investing in the system of Israeli occupation,
and for public campaigns against the illegal settlements in
Palestinian lands.

Above all, the data presented in the website exposes the level of
corruption  reached by the regime of monopoly capital,  which is based
not merely on trade and production but on the organized violence
applied by the capitalist state in order to preserve the profit level.
It is essential that activists on the left work in order to uncover
the violence which is inherent in the monpoly capitalist regime, and
to combine the struggle against the economic system with the struggle
against military occupation, violence and racism.

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