Mobile Phones

I had to get a new SIM card for my phone yesterday, because Orange, the Israeli based company that I previously used, is now ‘mumnoor’ (forbidden) in Palestine. So I am now a Jawwal customer – a company owned by a very rich man from Nablus who lives outside Palestine (I can’t remember if he’s in a Gulf state or Lebanon). I thought it was interesting that the boycott of Israeli goods (a campaign designed to affect practices of occupation) can actually be an economic policy that stimulates domestic markets. I wonder if this was the intention?