Israel Matzav
02 January '10
Adidas has caved in to the threat of an international boycott, the Jerusalem City Council has caved in to Adidas, and the Jerusalem Marathon will be rerouted not to take in any areas of Jerusalem that were liberated in 1967, including the Jewish neighborhoods in those parts of the city.
The Jerusalem Municipality had decided to change the course of the Jerusalem Marathon. The new route will not include running paths in areas of Jerusalem that were added to the city after 1967. Last month, two Meretz members of the Jerusalem City Council asked Adidas, which I sponsoring the marathon, to pull out of its sponsorship, threatening to start an international campaign accusing the company of supporting “occupation.”
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The Marathon still goes into Occupied East Jerusalem... The city claims no cave in occurred and that they did not change anything because of pressure... SO, essentially the marathon of the Occupation continues... note, that if the Occupation were to be measured as a marathon... it has since passed the 42 Km mark...
ReplyDeleteInsofar as the Hashemite Kingdom had seized and occupied sections of Jerusalem in 1948, and abruptly left after shelling Jerusalem population centers in 1967, the Jordanian occupation and seizure ended, almost 43 years ago. With the return of Jerusalem's indigenous people, the Jewish people, to those areas that had been seized in 1948, the historical injustice has finally been righted.
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