Howard Schultz Thanks Starbucks Customers for Helping Israel By Andrew Winkler

Howard Schultz Thanks Starbucks Customers for Helping Israel

By Andrew Winkler

Al-Jazeerah, November 22, 2006

Howard Schultz

A Thankyou To All Starbucks Customers

Written by Howard Schultz

Dear Starbucks Customer,

First and foremost I want to thank you for making Starbucks the $6.4 billion global company it is today, with more than 90,000 employees, 9,700 stores, and 33 million weekly customers. Every latte and macchiato you drink at Starbucks is a contribution to the close alliance between the United States and Israel, in fact it is - as I was assured when being honored with the “Israel 50th Anniversary Friend of Zion Tribute Award” - key to Israel’s long-term PR success. Your daily Chocolate Chips Frappucino helps paying for student projects in North America and Israel, presenting them with the badly needed Israeli perspective of the Intifada.

Starbucks, through the Jerusalem Fund of Aish HaTorah, an international network of Jewish education centres, sponsors Israeli military arms fairs in an effort to strengthen the special connection between the American, European and Israeli defense (actually war) industries and to showcase the newest Israeli innovations in defense (war making). As my contribution to the fight against the global rise of anti-Semitism, the reason behind the current conflict in the Middle-East, I help Aish HaTorah sponsoring the website "honestreporting.com” and produce material informing of Israel’s side of the story.

Without you, my valued customer, I wouldn’t be able to raise hundreds of millions of dollars each year to protect Israeli citizens from "terrorist" attacks (Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation) and keep reminding every Jew in America, to defend Israel at any cost. $5 billion per year from the US government are no way near enough to pay for all the weaponry, bulldozers and security fences needed to protect innocent Israeli citizens from anti-Semitic "Muslim terrorism" (as described by Israeli occupiers and their supporters) Corporate sponsorships are essential.

Having the bigger picture in mind, Starbucks have donated a store to the US army to help in the “War on Terror”. I cannot emphasize enough, how vital the “War on Terror” is for the continued viability and prospering of the Zionist State.

So next time you feel like chilling out at a Starbucks store, please remember that with every cup you drink at Starbucks you are helping with a "noble" cause (i.e. helping Israelis maintain their oppression of the Palestinian people).

Howard Schultz
Chairman & Chief Global Strategist
Starbucks Coffee Stores

Editor's note:

The Howard Schultz spoof letter above has caused quite a bit of a stir. In the first month of its publication, it has been read by more than 100,000 visitors on the ZioPedia site alone, and republished on hundreds of blogs all over the world. Some readers were not quite sure whether the article was 'kosher' or not. Well, it is and it isn't. Howard Schultz never wrote that letter, I did. However, all the statements I made in that letter about donations, sponsorships, political views etc. - are based on factual Howard Schultz actions and quotes, as 1/2 hour of 'Googling' will easily confirm to anyone interested.

There is obviously a lot of emphasis right now on Israel's most recent brutal aggression against Lebanon and the Gaza strip. However it's important not to forget that the current events are part of a bigger picture, Israel's criminal social-Darwinist and 19th century style colonialist plans for the region, a Jewish 'Lebensraum' from the Euphrates to the Nile. Let's face it, whatever critics will say against Israel, it will always be interpreted as being anti-Semitic. In fact, the current edition of the US dictionary Webster defines anti-Semitism as 'criticism of Israel'. How cool is that?

Andrew Winkler
Editor/Publisher
ZioPedia - A Rebel Media Group Project

Andrew Winkler is the editor/publisher of Sydney based dissident blogs The Rebel Media Group and ZioPedia. Andrew can be contacted under editor@therebel.org . You can find his articles My Jewish Problem, Antisemitism is a good thing, About flat-earthers and revisionists, Human spirit is not for sale (and can't be shot), Treating cancer with painkillers, The Last Taboo, For Evil to Prevail, The Jewish Question, Deadly Chess Game, The Bigger Picture, About Ziopedia, Reiner, Gibson and the libel of anti-Semitism and Reply to Jorge Hirsch's "Nuke Iran, Blame the Jews" on this site.]

This article was first published by ZioPedia on July 11, 2006. But the author submitted for publication at Al-Jazeerah, on November 20, 2006.

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Apartheid Wall


The Israeli Land-Grab Apartheid Wall built inside the Palestinian territories, here separating Abu Dis from occupied East Jerusalem. (IPC, 7/4/04).

The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers in the West Bank, like a Python. (Alquds,10/25/03).

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