WASHINGTON -- On December 4, 2008, exactly 40 years after returning from a tour as an infantryman in the Vietnam War, United States Senator Chuck Hagel spoke of peace. "When I think of jobs and improving people's conditions," he told the nonpartisan Israel Policy Forum, "I think of what Stef Wertheimer has been doing in Turkey and Israel." Hagel explained that Wertheimer -- one of Israel's wealthiest men -- "has five very high-tech industrial base firms in Turkey and Israel. They're planning twenty more. I've been there. I've seen them. Here he has Palestinians and Israelis and Jews working side by side in these plants, and he is helping educate their children. They have futures, they have opportunities. This is not some idealistic dream, in fact it's happened."
[ed note:how nice of Turkey to allow one of israhells wealthyest industrialists who helped figth and create the apartheid state on stolen Palestinian territory,to run an industrial park there...The idea of a Marshall Plan for the Middle East has been suggested by everyone from the dean of Columbia Business School to the leader of the Syrian rebels. [ed notes:leaders of the syrian rebels have gone as far as stating that if they remove Assad they will need to borrow billions from west,to govern Syria(whos economy has broken down thanks to their western backed so called uprising)of course then all Syrian citizens will be held hostage to the loans wich will have to be repaid with interest...in short should Assad fall ,all public sectors will be privatized to the west....imf will come in and well ,we know the outcomes...it will be the ''revolution for slavery'' Yet Stef Wertheimer's Marshall-inspired industrial parks are something different, consisting not just of economic development, but technical education, cross-cultural communities and art museums -- home. Nestled in the foothills of the Galilee, his flagship Tefen Industrial Park draws a steady stream of startups and visitors, as impressed by the high-performing businesses as they are by the Israeli and Palestinian residents who happily co-exist. Wertheimer -- a highly-respected entrepreneur who fled Nazi persecution and fought for Israeli Independence before founding a small metal tool cutting business -- jokingly calls this his "capitalist kibbutz," but a more appropriate name might be "Marshall Parks."Wertheimer runs seven such parks -- six in Israel, one in Turkey -- which he proudly informs me have helped launch more than 200 export firms, create over 5,500 jobs and generate over $1 billion in sales. [ed notes:5,500 jobs only and over a billion in profit?not a bad rackett at all.. His dream -- Wertheimer's Marshall Plan -- is a string of 100 industrial parks stretching from Turkey to Egypt, employing and training equal numbers of Israelis and Arabs while giving shaky Arab states the industrial base from which to launch modern economies. Ever the industrious industrialist, Wertheimer continued to marshal support for his stalled project,testifying before Congress in 2002 and impressing the likes of George Mitchell and Liz Cheney until the Iraq War diverted U.S. attention.
Stanley Weiss is the former chairman of American Premier, Inc. (an international mining, refractories, chemicals and mineral processing company) and founding chairman of Business Executives for National Security (a non-partisan organization of senior executives who contribute their expertise in the best practices of business to strengthening the nation's security). [ed notes:hes representing of course nothing more the the biggest criminal corporate interests in world,the fortune 500 companies of west...,thats who business executives for national security are and represent!!the fact he mentions syria rebels leaders promotion of same goals in no accident.Because syria has been a relatively closed economy for so long, the corporate locusts cant wait to swarm in, under guise of nation building,just as they did in Iraq..rebels destroy infrastructure,then western vultures will come in to rebuild(if they can achieve their goals).F#ck you and your capitalist kibbutz and marshal parks,go implement your haitian model elsewhere...
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