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 Dear Starbucks
Customer,
First and foremost I want to thank you for making
Starbucks the $6.4 billion global company it is today, with more than 90,000
employees, 9,700 stores, and 33 million weekly customers. Every latte and macchiato you drink at Starbucks
is a contribution to the close alliance between the United States and Israel,
in fact it is - as I was assured when being honoured with the " Israel
50th Anniversary Friend of Zion Tribute Award" - key to Israel's
long-term PR success. Your daily chocolate chips frappucino helps
paying for student projects in North America and Israel,
presenting them with the badly needed Israeli perspective of the Intifada.
Starbucks, through the Jerusalem
Fund of Aish HaTorah, an international network of Jewish education centres,
sponsors Israeli military arms fairs in an effort to strengthen the special
connection between the American, European and Israeli defense industries and
to showcase the newest Israeli innovations in defense . As my
contribution to the fight against the global rise of anti-Semitism, the
reason behind the current conflict in the Middle-East, I help Aish HaTorah
sponsoring the website "honestreporting.com" and produce
material informing of Israel
's side of the story.
 Without you, my valued customer,
I wouldn't be able to raise hundreds of millions of dollars each year to
support Israeli citizens from terrorist attacks and keep reminding every Jew
in America,
to defendIsrael at any cost. $5 billion per year from the US
government are no way near enough to pay for all the weaponry, bulldozers and
security fences needed to protect innocent Israeli citizens from anti
-Semitic Muslim terrorism. Corporate sponsorships are
essential.
Having the bigger picture in mind, Starbucks have donated a store to the US
army to help in the "War on Terror". I cannot emphasise
enough, how vital the "War on Terror" is for the continued
viability and prospering of the Jewish State.
So next time you feel like chilling out at a
Starbucks store, please remember that with every cup you drink at Starbucks
you are helping with a noble cause.
Howard Schultz
Chairman & Chief Global Strategist
Starbucks Coffee Stores
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