As revolutionary and unanticipated as that idea was, it has produced a number of terrific results, such as getting numerous countries to commit to dropping trade barriers against American goods, getting those countries to invest heavily in the building of new manufacturing plants in America, and getting the American purchasing world to diversify, reducing our dependence on China while “sharing the wealth” with the many other “low cost countries” that China has frozen out for so long, as well as increasing domestic production here at home. If an American company sells a product to a foreign customers, say, in Belgium or France or Singapore or South Africa (none of these are Arab nations, officially at least, you’ll note), the company’s legal department must check their customer’s proposed contract to make sure it doesn’t include any clauses committing to support of the Arab League boycott of Israel, because the foreign customer might have agreed to the boycott to please their own arab clients. But to actually go so far as to punish our trading partners from doing business with Iran – unrelated business that the USA has no part in – is a violation of the very reasoning that we’ve depended on for fifty years to justify our own position on the Arab League’s boycott of Israel.
Author: Illinois Review
Published at: 2026-01-17 19:28:57
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