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Apr. 20, 2021
During the Second Lebanon War in 2006, Bank Leumi decided to lift the spirits of the people and handed out hundreds of thousands of blue stickers promising, “We will win.” Somebody stuck one on the desk in the control tower at Atarot Airport.
The present state of the airport in northern Jerusalem, 20 years after it was closed down at the height of the Second Intifada, tells us nothing about its magnificent past. The room we stand in is a ruin. Pieces of long-obsolete computers are strewn on the floor; lengths of cable, sheets of metal and chunks of insulation hang down from the ceiling. The windows are broken or missing. Everything is coated in dust.
Illustrative: Jewish families flee Arab rioting in Jerusalem s Old City in August 1929. (Public domain)
Palestinian Arabs gather at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, in an anti-Zionist demonstration on March 8, 1920, prior to the Nabi Musa holiday on which violent rioting took place. (Public domain)
Illustrative: Then-British Home Secretary Winston Churchill on a visit to the British Mandate of Palestine in March 1921, nearly three decades before it became the Jewish state. (Churchill Museum)
Then-British Home Secretary Winston Churchill with Sir Herbert Samuel during a visit to Jerusalem in March 1921. (Public domain)
Jewish refugees, arriving in Haifa, Palestine on April 14, 1920, aboard the Theodore Herzl support on their shoulders the bodies, in white shrouds, two of their compatriots, whom refugees charge where slain when the Theodore Herzl was boarded by British personnel after unsuccessfully attempting to run the British blockade. (AP Photo/Tom Fitzsimmons)
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Proponents of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel have never concerned themselves with their own internal logic (e.g., U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar supporting BDS and then decrying sanctions, like ones being considered against Turkey at the time, as ill-considered, incoherent and counterproductive ), and the latest lament from the Pillsbury family is no different. ( Why we must boycott Pillsbury, Opinion Exchange, April 29.) Here, the Pillsburys cite a single industrial park in Atarot as grounds for a worldwide boycott against Pillsbury, which is owned by General Mills. Never mind that Atarot was originally an Israeli moshav destroyed by Jordan in 1948. Never mind that General Mills has production facilities across the entire planet. And certainly neve