Sunday, March 24, 2013

Resolution of Israel Chemicals dispute to establish if ass-kissing pays

When Canada's Foreign Minister John Baird was traipsing around the Holy Land last year, personal rabbi in tow, Canadians and Israelis alike cringed at the man's over-the-top obsequiousness.

We need to bear in mind that a Foreign Minister's role is, among other things, to be a sales ambassador for a country's industrialists. So we can safely assume that intermingled amongst the ubiquitous toadying and back-slapping Baird had more than a few occasions to put in a plug for Potash Corp's proposed takeover of Israel Chemicals.

But here comes party pooper Gilad Erdan, whose last desperate act as an outgoing minister of the state is an impassioned plea to Netanyahu to quash the Canadian deal.

The Environmental Protection Minister goes so far as to admit he totally fell down on the job.

"For decades Israel Chemicals has caused enormous damage to its environs."

Oh really? And where was the Environment Protection Minister while that was going on?


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