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Un ouvrier palestinien de Jérusalem Est attend à l'arrêt de bus en parlant dans son portable et il dit: "J'aime travailler ici. Les relations entre les personnes sont bonnes, que dois-je ajouter d'autre'?

?It's only segregated at the top level, between the Israeli and the Palestinian governments', says an Arab cook from East Jerusalem working at the SodaStream canteen.  ?The politicians, they make all kinds of a mess between Jews and Arabs. But the people here, the Palestinians and Israelis, they are working together, they talk to each other, there's no problem. But at the political level, there are many issues.?


Arabs and Jews together and
all against the boycott'We need 1,000 SodaStreams around here' @ The Telegraph.  Extraits:

The plant employs roughly 500 Palestinians from the Occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, as well as 450 Arab Israelis and 350 Jewish Israelis. It makes gadgets for creating home-made fizzy drinks. [...]

?We have no problems working here', said one Palestinian employee, as others nodded in agreement. ?The relations with the others are good, the pay is fine. But the way home is sometimes very long'.

One outside contractor who regularly visited the plant added: ?It's rare to see a company like this. Everyone sits together, works together. If you ask me, there should be a thousand SodaStreams in this area.? [...]


Earlier this week, SodaStream's chief executive, Daniel Birnbaum, said he would ?never' have built the plant there in the first place had he known the controversy it might attract. But despite it being a ?pain the ass', he said he had no intentions to shut it.  ?We will not throw our employees under the bus to promote anyone's political agenda,? he said.


Yonah Lloyd, president of SodaStream, describes the atmosphere in the plant as ?very harmonious'.  ?We believe what we've accomplished by bringing together all kinds of people to work together, break bread together at lunch, and at company events at the beach, is a dream,? he told The Telegraph.

Several of the SodaStream employees interviewed point to the schism between politics and their everyday lives in terms of relations between Israelis and Palestinians.  ?It's only segregated at the top level, between the Israeli and the Palestinian governments', says an Arab cook from East Jerusalem working at the SodaStream canteen.  ?The politicians, they make all kinds of a mess between Jews and Arabs. But the people here, the Palestinians and Israelis, they are working together, they talk to each other, there's no problem. But at the political level, there are many issues.?
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