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 defend Israel 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

Last Updated ( Friday, 14 July 2006 )



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