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Old Jun 13, 2012, 3:43 pm
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hfly
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1. It is not 1973 anymore, the "Arab boycott" lost most of its meaning by the end of the 70's and in reality ceased to exist by 1991. While the ME is perhaps the only region of the World that Pepsi has a big market share, Coke has been almost everywhere in the region for over 20 years. The oil producing countries sell oil to countries that do business with Israel, and at a less publicized level many countries in the region do in fact regularly conduct business with Israel (When the US government made a big deal about DP World buying ports, one of the strongest letters of support came from ZIM, the Israeli shipping company).

BTW, it is not that maps in Saudi omit Israel, there is no black hole where the country should be, instead, it is referred to as Palestine, Al Quds or some other acronym. That being said, for the last decade in most maps I see come from the region it is labeled as.............Israel.
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