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From 1966 Coca-Cola has been a staunch supporter of Israel. In 1997 the
Government of Israel Economic Mission honored Coca-Cola at the Israel
Trade Award Dinner for its continued support of Israel for the last 30
years and for refusing to abide by the Arab League boycott of Israel.
Every year Coca Cola bankrolls the American-Israel Chamber of
Commerce Awards which honors companies that have contributed most to the
Israeli economy. In 2009 a Coca-Cola sponsored award went to Israel’s
Lobby AIPAC for its lobbying of the Senate to reject of the UN call for
"immediate ceasefire" and endorse the continuation of the Israel
military assault on Gaza.
In 2008 Coca-Cola tasked the Israeli venture capital Challenge Fund
to locate suitable investments in Israel with a promise of "a blank
cheque” . This agreement is exceptional in the Israeli venture capital
industry.
In 2009 Coca-Cola hosted a special reception at the Coca-Cola world
headquarters to honour Brigadier-General Ben-Eliezer. Ben-Eliezer is a
wanted war criminal, during the Six-Day War his unit was responsible for
the execution of over 300 Egyptian POWs. Under Sharon, Ben-Eliezer
served as Defence Minister presiding over the massacre at Jenin.
Coca-Cola Israel owns dairy farms in the illegal Israeli settlements
of Shadmot Mechola in the Jordan Valley and a plant in the industrial
zone of Katzerin n the occupied Golan Heights.
Products & Affiliated Companies:
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http://www.thecoca-colacompany.com/brands/brandlist.html
In the UK their popular brands include:
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola Zero
diet Coke
Sprite
Fanta
Lilt
Dr Pepper
Oasis
Kia-Ora
Schweppes
Five Alive
Minute Maid
Roses
Powerade
Relentless
Malvern
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Research Findings:
The Coca Cola Company, with a portfolio of more than 3,000 beverages,
is the worlds largest beverage company operating in more than 200
countries. In 2008 Coca-Cola made a gross profit of over $20 billion. It
makes its money by supplying concentrates, beverage bases and syrups to
its bottling partners world-wide. 76% of Coca-Cola bottlers around the
world are owned or partly owned by the Coca-Cola Company. The bottling
partners manufacture, package, merchandise and distribute the beverages
to their customers who then sell it to consumers. 1.6 billion
Coca-Cola's are consumed every day.
Coca-Cola honoured by Israel
From 1966 onward Coca-Cola has been a staunch supporter of Israel.
According to the Israeli Consulate in Atlanta "The Consulate and
Coca-Cola share a strong relationship and the firm is one of Israel's
close trading partners."
In 1997 the Government of Israel Economic Mission honored Coca-Cola
at the Israel Trade Award Dinner for its continued support of Israel for
the last 30 years and for "refusing to abide by the Arab League
economic boycott of Israel. For decades, this cost Coca-Cola the
opportunity to sell its products in Arab countries."
[ In contrast Pepsi abided by the Arab League boycott of Israel which
ended in May 1991, after 1992 Pepsi is also trading in Israel - see ]
Close ties to American-Israel Chamber of Commerce
Coca Cola has always been very closely linked to the American-Israel
Chamber of Commerce (AICC). The AICC's mission statement is to boost the
Israeli economy by fostering business relationships between Israel and
the US (Southeast). Since its founding in 1992, AICC has been involved
in completed transactions with Israel valued at more than $950 million.

In October 2001 Coca Cola bankrolled and hosted
the very first American-Israel Chamber of Commerce
Awards Gala at the Coca-Cola Company's world
headquaters on North Avenue, Atlanta to honour
those companies and deals that have contributed
most to the Israeli economy.
Like Coca Cola, AICC is also based in Atlanta - it shares a suite with the Israel company GPV. AICC's leadership seems to always includes executives from the Coca Cola Company and in return Coca Cola bankrolls many of AICC's activities.
The American-Israel Chamber of Commerce (AICC) current Vice Chairman
is Joel Neuman from The Coca-Cola Company, the AICC website states that
Neuman and the rest of the leadership is "committed to opening doors for
Israeli companies within their own companies and network of
connections."
Courtesy of AICC's door opening, Coca-Cola Enterprises is now using
the services of the Israeli company GreenRoad, which produces software
to aid driving behaviour.
Coca Cola actively encourages other companies to invest in Israel by
sponsoring awards to companies that boost Israels economy. In October
2001 Coca Cola bankrolled and hosted the very first American-Israel
Chamber of Commerce Awards Gala at the Coca-Cola Company's world
headquaters on North Avenue, Atlanta to honour those companies and deals
that have contributed most to the Israeli economy. The awards were
given out by Israel’s Economic Minister to North America Zohar Peri.
In May 2003 the Coca Cola sponsered American-Israel Chamber of
Commerce Awards Gala featured as its key note speaker the Israeli
Ambassador to the U.S. Dany Ayalon (current Deputy Foreign Minister -
2010).
Every year Coca Cola bankrolls the American-Israel Chamber of
Commerce Awards which honors companies that have contributed most to
Southeastern U.S.-Israel business relationships by generating both jobs
and investment in Israel.

Coca-Cola sponsored American-Israel Chamber of Commerce Eagle Star
Awards bestowed the "Community Partner Award" to Israels Lobby AIPAC
for its successful lobbying of the Senate to reject of the UN call
for "immediate ceasefire" and endorse the continuation of the
Israel military assault on Gaza.
And again in 2007 Coca Cola hosted the American-Israel Chamber of
Commerce Awards Gala at the Coca-Cola Co's headquaters. Coca-Cola’s
Israel country manager and strategic planning director for the Eurasia
Group, Richard Izsak, was the keynote speaker at the Gala.
In May 2009 Coca-Cola sponsored American-Israel Chamber of Commerce
Eagle Star Awards bestowed the "Community Partner Award" to Israels
Lobby AIPAC
for its successful lobbying of the Senate to reject of the UN call for
"immediate ceasefire" and endorse the continuation of the Israel
military assault on Gaza..
Coca-Cola sponsered the American-Israel Chamber of Commerce
"Southeast - Israel Water Technology Business Exchange held in Atlanta
on October 15 2009.
Nine Israeli companies pitched their wares followed by one to one
meeting with municipal operators and local companies. "We’re pleased to
have brought these companies together, and trust that the event will
produce business for the Israeli companies and solutions for the
Southeast operators and companies" said Gene Rubel of AICC.
Coca Cola honouring a war criminal
In September 2009 Coca-Cola hosted a special reception at the
Coca-Cola world headquarters to honour Brigadier-General Binyamin
Ben-Eliezer,
Israel's ex-Minister of Defense currently Minister of Industry, Trade
& Labor. The reception was attended by the American-Israel Chamber
of Commerce Board of Directors and almost 150 members of the
American-Israel Chamber of Commerce.
Brigadier-General Binyamin Ben-Eliezer is a wanted war criminal.
According to Dr.Aryeh Yitzhaki, a mainstream Israeli military historian,
the IDF killed around a 1000 Egyptian POWs during the Six-Day War.
Ben-Eliezer "Shaked unit" was responsible for one-third of those
murders.

Israeli
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (L), and Defense Minister Brigadier-General
Binyamin Ben Eliezer at an army camp outside the Palestinian refugee
camp of Jenin in the West Bank, 10 April 2002, being briefed on the
progress of the on-going slaughter of the Palestinian inhabitants which
began 7 days ago.
Dr. Yitzhaki reports that Palestinian volunteers in the Egyptian army
were executed Nazi-style in El-Arish in 1967. Gabby Biron, a right-wing
journalist who witnessed the murder of about 10 POWs before being forced
to leave, confirmed Yitzhaki's report. Biron says that Israeli
intelligence officers put POWs one by one through a short interrogation.
If the IDF determined by the prisoner's accent that he was Palestinian,
he was taken behind the building, forced to dig his own grave, and
shot. According to Holocaust survivors, the incident bears a striking
similarity to Nazi tactics.

Defense
Minister Brigadier-General Binyamin Ben Eliezer(R), Army Chief of Staff
Lieutenant General Moshe Yaalon (C) and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon (L) - three war criminals watching an army exercise at Shizafon
amy base in southern Israel (9 Oct 2002).
Ben-Eliezer was the First Commanding Officer in Southern Lebanon,
appointed in 1977, acting as a liaison between the local Christian
militias and Israel, laying the foundations for the collaboration which
would result in the Sabra Shatilla massacre in 1982. From 1978-1981 he
was the Military Governor of the West Bank and from 1983-1984 he was the
Government Coordinator of Activities in the Occupied Palestinian
Territories. Under Sharon, Ben-Eliezer served as Defence Minister (Mar
2001- Oct 2002) during Operation Defensive Shield where Israel brutally
attacked and reoccupied Palestinian cities perpetrating war crimes with
total disregard for civilian populations, prominent among them was the
massacre at Jenin.

Defense
Minister Brigadier-General Binyamin Ben Eliezer(L), Army Chief of Staff
Lieutenant General Moshe Yaalon (C) and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon (R) - three war criminals.
In December 2009 The Coca-Cola Company's Senior Vice President (Research
& Innovation), Bilal Kaafarani, was the keynote speaker along with
Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren and Israeli Minister of Infrastructure
Uzi Landau at the "US & Israel: Confronting Challenges" meeting in
New York.
The event was organised by the Israel-America Chamber of Commerce which
is the Israeli partner of the American-Israel Chamber of Commerce.
Coca-Cola Israel - Mossad and the Lobby

Mossad operative Moshe Wertheim (top) is
currently president of Coca Cola Israel.
Abraham Feinberg, pictured (bottom) shaking hands with
President Truman, was Coca-Cola Israel's CEO until his
death in 1998. As a leading Zionist lobbist he
single-handedly arranged the financing of Truman's
presidential campaign. His influence on President
Lyndon Johnson ensured Israel didn't have to sign the NPT.
The Israel-America Chamber of Commerce was headed for five consecutive
years (91-96) by a Mossad operative called Moshe Wertheim. Wertheim
along with Abraham Feinberg had brought Coca Cola to Israel in 1968,
Wertheim is currently president of Coca Cola Israel.
Abraham Feinberg was Coca-Cola Israel's CEO until he died in December
1998. He is described by the New York Magazine as "an ardent Zionist
and towering member of the American Jewish lobby. Feinberg has played
the power game in high places since 1948 when he single-handedly
arranged the financing of Truman's underdog whistle-stop campaign. As a
result of this coup and his intimate ties to Israeli leaders from David
Ben-Gurion to Itzhak Rabin, he became a trusted Truman ally and an
insider in all Democratic administrations since."
Declassified State Department documents revealled that it was
Feinberg's influence on President Lyndon Johnson that ensured Johnson
didn't compel Israel to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty before
delivering 50 Phantom fighter jets to Israel which had previously been
contingent upon Israel forgoing nuclear weapons.
Coca Cola Israel (aka Central Bottling Company), with an annual
turnover of over $900 million, is among Coca-Cola’s ten largest
single-plant bottling facilities worldwide. It provides nearly 5000 jobs
in Israel. Coca Cola Israel owns Tara Dairies, Israel's second largest dairy,
which has dairy farms in the illegal Israeli settlelemts on the West
Bank. Tara is a major shareholder of Meshek Zuriel Dairy (approx. 52%),
which owns a dairy farm in the settlement of Shadmot Mechola in the
occupied Jordan Valley. Additionally, the company holds a third of the
shares of Ramat Hagolan Dairies, which is located in the occupied Golan
Heights, in the industrial zone of Katzerin where the products of the
company are manufactured.
Coca-Cola Israel also supports the Jewish National Fund
and sponsers training programs for its workers on subjects including
the Israeli-Arab conflict. The course content is created by a company
funded by the Jewish Agency and the Israeli government.
In July 2002, it was announced that Coca-Cola Israel, in return for
$55 million in incentives from the Israeli government, is to build a new
plant on stolen Palestinian land at Kiryat Gat employing 700 workers. This development did not go ahead due to grant disputes and a new potential location (Ashkelon).
In October 2005, Coca-Cola Israel increased its investment in Israel
by buying a 51 percent controlling interest in the Tavor Winery.
'Blank Cheque' Investment in Israel
In March 2007 Coca Cola sent a trade delegation of top executives to
Israel. According to Ilan Friedman of the American Israel Chamber of
Commerce "the goal is to invest, acquire companies, sign strategic
agreements with companies and funds, or merge with Israeli technology
companies."
It was the first time the American Israel Chamber of Commerce had ever
taken representatives from a single corporation to Israel.
Following the trade delegation, Muhtar Kent, President and Chief
Executive Officer of The Coca-Cola Company, in June 2008 addressing the
Israel Food Industries Association conference in Tel Aviv revealed Coca
Cola's investment plan for Israel: "We've also set up an incubator
program in Israel that focuses on new ideas and technologies emerging in
areas like packaging, functional ingredients and water usage. Our goal
is to select the most promising technologies, test them and
commercialize them."
Coca-Cola has tasked the Israeli venture capital fund Challenge Fund to
locate technology opportunities on the firm's behalf and promised "a
blank check" for any suitable investments. This agreement with Coca Cola
is exceptional in the Israeli venture capital industry.
Coca Cola CEO denies Palestinians
In August 2009 Muhtar Kent, the Chairman of the Board and Chief
Executive Officer of The Coca-Cola Company, was invited to Israel to
speak at the Globes Conference on Social Responsibility in Tel Aviv.

Caught on camera: Coca-Cola delivering to
the illegal Israeli settlement of Ariel
In his surreal speech on 'Social Responsibility' he praised Coca-Cola's
'great bottling partner' in Israel the Central Bottling Company (aka
Coca Cola Israel) and talked of "Our vision of sustainability at
Coca-Cola is a world where all people have access to safe water.. where
our communities and our neighbors are prosperous.." - this a few miles
from besieiged Gaza where Amnesty International in its report for the
same year titled "Troubled Waters: Palestinians denied fair access to
water"
revealled "90-95% of the water in Gaza is contaminated and unfit for
human consumption" - Gazans (56% of whom are children) have to drink
contaminated water because Israel is denying them drinking water. Coca
Cola CEO never once mentioned Gaza - as if it never exsisted, instead he
praised Golda Meir as a 'great leader' reflecting 'social
responsibility'. Golda Meir had likewise denied the existance of the
Palestinian people - "There is no such thing as a Palestinian people...
It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They
didn't exist." He went on to talk of Coca Cola's sponsership of the
Special Olympics and how he had met several Special Olympic athletes
from Israel, but again never mentioning Palestinian athletes like 21
year old Lyad Abuelkheir
who suffers from Down's syndrome and was due to compete in the handball
competition at the Special Olympics in Ireland in 2003 but was preveted
from attending by the Israeli authorities despite holding an Irish
visa.
Sponsoring propaganda
For most of the last two decades, every year Coca Cola has sponsored
the JCC (Jewish Community Centre Association), in particular JCC Summer
Camps (eg $77,500 in 2007) and the JCC Maccabi Games where 6000 Jewish teens from different countries participate each summer.

The JCC Maccabi Games is sponsored by Coca-Cola
every year for most of the last two decades. Its mission
statement is to cultivate Jewish youth in an informal setting
to "encourage their identification with the state of Israel"
In its mission statement it states that the JCC Maccabi Games aims to
cultivate Jewish youth in an informal setting to "encourage their
identification with the state of Israel".
The JCC aims to "strengthen connections between North American Jews and
Israel". The JCC achieves this through recruiting emissaries from
Israel (shlichim), who are specially trained to whitewash Israels
crimes, to help run their summer camps. The Jewish Agency for Israel
trains shlichim, as a requirement it insists all candidates must have
served in the Israeli army (IDF). Those targeting yougsters must
"endeavors to impart Jewish heritage and Zionism, to encourage members
of the community to visit Israel.. and representing Israel before the
general public". The JCC sends youth delegations on propaganda trips to Israel where the reality of the occupation is hidden away. It also has strong links to the military ("serving the needs of Jewish military personnel").
In February 2002, Coca-Cola teamed up with "Friends of Israel" and
National Hillel to cosponser a lecture given by the infamous zionist
correspondent Linda Gradstein at the University of Minnesota.
The Coca-Cola Company funds collaborative research projects between
the University of Minnesota and Tel Aviv University through its support
of "The Lieberman-Okinow Endowed Chair in Disease Resistance Breeding in
Cereal Crops".
Other nefarious activities
As with its support for Israel, Coca-Cola has a particularly rotten record right across the board, including:
1. Coca-Cola driking the world dry
Three litres of water are used to make one litre of Coca-Cola. In
order to satisfy this need for vast amount of water, Coca-Cola is
increasingly taking over control of aquifers in communities around the
world. These vast subterranean chambers hold water resources collected
over many hundreds of years. As such they the represent the heritage of
entire communities, Coca-Cola is squantering it resulting in shortages
of water in communities around the world.
2. Double Standards - Coca-Cola Toxic in India
A Coca-Cola bought in India is not the same as one bought in the US
or UK - in India it will contain over 30 times the EU limit for
pesticides and include banned substances blamed for birth defects and
cancer.
3. Coca-Cola accused of killing workers in Colombia
Trade unions around the world have launched a boycott of Coca-Cola
products, alleging that the company's locally owned bottlers in Colombia
used illegal paramilitary death squads to intimidate, threaten and kill
its workers.