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There was a small but intense, brief but effective campaign in the year 2000 in the United States to pressure Starbucks to not open any outlets in Israel. This was during the second Intifada, and, as now, there were many disturbing images coming out of Gaza and the West Bank. Activists basically plastered the windows…

Let me try to describe the energy crisis in Egypt through a metaphor… Imagine if you had to have some kind of surgery, but the doctor didn’t want to be paid with money and instead wanted to extract some of your organs during surgery to sell on the Black Market. You say, “no,sorry, I need…