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Motorola & Israel

Mar 28th, 2012
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  1. #Anonymous #OpFreePalestine #BoycottIsraeliApartheid #TheNameless #TeamValerian
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  4. Motorola's Involvement in Apartheid Israel, <scarl3tt> 03/28/2012
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  7. Motorola started in Chicago, Illinois as Galvin Manufacturing Corporation in 1928, with its first product being a battery eliminator. In 1930 Galvin Manufacturing Corporation introduced the Motorola radio, one of the first commercially successful car radios. The name Motorola was adopted in 1930, and the word has been used as a trademark since the 1930s. Motorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, which was eventually divided into two independent public companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011, after losing $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009. Motorola Solutions is generally considered to be the direct successor to Motorola, Inc., as the reorganization was structured with Motorola Mobility being spun off.
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  9. Motorola Israel (wholly owned by Motorola USA) is another company that directly profits from the war crimes of the Israeli occupation. Motorola began doing business with Israel in 1948 the same year that it was founded (eager much?). Globes, Israel’s business daily, in a feature on Motorola titled “We were first” revealed “Motorola Israel, which was set up when the State of Israel was founded in 1948, is proud of the fact that it was the first non-North American branch of the communications giant, and that Motorola was one of the few companies to defy the Arab boycott by establishing an Israeli subsidiary.”It is the first branch outside of the USA where Motorola has operated. Although it sold one of its units that was directly creating bomb fuses for the Israeli army (a reason for this move was not given though it took place in the aftermath of Motorola serial numbers being discovered in civilian bomb wreckage as part of Operation Cast Lead by Human Rights Watch,)-- it is still heavily invested in the Israeli army, most infamously including its design for an IDF cellular network known as "Mountain Rose". This security communications system, worth roughly $100 USD, was essential to Israel’s military invasion of Lebanon in 2006. Since “Mountain Rose” is easily transportable, it allows the IDF communications system to be extended to battle fields.Even after selling its GED (Government Electronics Department), Motorola has continued to work with the Israeli army in their technological development, making suggestions and more.
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  11. Read the Electronic Intifada for a full report (after Motorola sold the GED): (http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article...)
  12. (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola)
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  15. Since the founding of Israel in 1948, Motorola has been involved in assisting the state in carrying out its repressive policies towards Palestinians. Motorola established Motorola Israel as its first wholly owned subsidiary outside of the United States in 1964.
  16. Motorola Israel profits handsomely from Israel's militarism and ongoing occupation of Palestinian lands, earning over $1 billion in annual revenues in 2007. As Motorola's chief operating officer Mike Zafirovski put it: “Our investment in Israel is one of the most successful we have made”.
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  18. Motorola enables Israel’s apartheid policies and violations of international law through the development and sale of products specifically designed for and used by the Israeli Army to maintain its settlements and perpetrate war crimes in the Palestinian Occupied Territories and elsewhere.
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  20. There are 3 basic categories of Motorola products that are integral to sustaining the state of Israel’s criminal policies:
  21. 1.Munitions and components for munitions.
  22. 2.Specialized communications equipment and systems
  23. 3.Specialized ‘surveillance and security’ equipment and systems
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  25. (http://adalahny.org/campaign-main-document/576/motorola-nycbi)
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  28. Consider the following:
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  30. • Motorola has the exclusive contract to provide the Israeli military with encrypted mobile phone technology.  This means that every Israeli boarder guard manning a checkpoint inside of Palestinian territory and every Israeli soldier committing war crimes in the assault on the Gaza Strip takes their orders through a Motorola device.
  31. • Motorola "virtual fences" and surveillance systems are used at dozens of illegal Israeli settlements built on Palestinian land.  These Jewish-only settlements are a potent symbol Israeli apartheid and are illegal under several international laws, including the 4th Geneva Convention.  Settlements use high-tech Motorola equipment to ghettoize Palestinian communities as confiscate their land.
  32. • Motorola also has close ties with Aeronautics Defense Systems (ADS), which makes drone aircraft that the Israeli military used during Operation Cast Lead (the most recent assault on the Gaza Strip). Human Rights Watch researchers reported that they found Motorola parts at the site of this assault that killed around 1,400 Palestinians, more than 400 of whom were children.
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  34. (http://electronicintifada.net/content/mo...)
  35. (http://www.inminds.com/boycott-motorola.php)
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  38. Currently, Motorola has a 9% stake in Israeli company Afcon Industries which supplies the metal detector security systems used at illegal Israeli military checkpoints in the occupied West Bank and crossings to Gaza. In December 2008 Afcon won a contract to supply the security system for the Jerusalem Light Rail Transport system which is built on stolen Palestinian land, connecting west Jerusalem to illegal Jewish settlements in occupied east Jerusalem thereby directly helping Israeli annexation of the territory of east Jerusalem. (taken from inminds)
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  40. Motorola also has a stake in “Beeper Communications Israel, a Motorola affiliated company, has been the leading paging operator in Israel since 1988. The IDF, the Israel Police, “Magen David Adom”, “Zaka”, various security organizations, hospitals and many other key organizations, utilize Beeper’s broadcast messaging services on a large scale. Beeper is certified as compliant with the rigorous ISO 9001:2000 standard and is ranked as “Excellent Supplier” by the Israeli Defense Ministry.”
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  42. Motorola has a particularly large stake in “Taldor Communications Ltd.: A strategic partnership between Taldor (51%) and Motorola Israel (49%). Taldor Communications is the Israeli leader for comprehensive end to end data communications and data security solutions… Taldor Communications ‘core business’ includes ‘defense applications’. (inminds)
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  44. So yeah, basically Motorola loves Israel and is mostly dabbling with the IDF who are pretty much the enforcers of the unfair occupation of the Palestinians. They got rid of the bomb fuses and MIRS, now on the list;
  45. -WASS for settlement and wall security
  46. -IDF communications technology (Mountain Rose)
  47. -9% stake in Afcon
  48. -Beeper Comm Israel
  49. -49% stake in Taldor
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  51. (http://stay-human.tumblr.com/post/4232319859/secondary-consumer-boycott-of-israel-motorola)
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  53. Still like your phone? :P
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