Members of Kibbutz Hanita near Israel’s northern border are demanding $11 million from Ballet Vision, the Chinese fund that controls 80% of the Hanita Lenses plant, accusing it of refusing to exercise an option to purchase the kibbutz’s remaining shares, according to a lawsuit filed in Tel Aviv District Court.

In a response letter attached to the lawsuit, the Chinese fund said that since the outbreak of the war in Israel, Beijing has classified Israel as a “high-risk area” and imposed a ban on any new Chinese investments in the country, making it impossible to carry out the option.

According to the lawsuit, in 2021 the kibbutz sold 74% of Hanita Lenses, which manufactures intraocular lenses for medical use, to Ballet Vision for $35 million. Of that sum, $25 million was paid to kibbutz members, with an additional $10 million injected into the company.

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      I’m not worried that you even understand what liberalism is, and I know for a fact you have no idea who I am other than my comment history. Yours, by the way, is not particularly impressive.

      Who did you vote for in the last Canadian election?

      And exactly what was the point of your insertion into this discussion?

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        Who did you vote for in the last Canadian election?

        What you talking about? You hint that you saw my comment history and how in the world you came to the conclusion that I’m Canadian?

        And exactly what was the point of your insertion into this discussion?

        Calling this “imperialist desires or a general desire to increase ones power, which are both arguably part of human nature” what is it: completely bullshit.

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          Buddy if you’re not Canadian, then why would I care what you think? Thankfully your politics will have little purchase here. I suspect you know very little about my country and I know that you know even less about me.

          On the topic of discussion, you don’t understand my central claim and frankly I’m not sure it would benefit either of us to reach any mutual understanding anyway. To start with, you use terms like ‘fucking liberals’ that doesn’t really suggest an inclination to deep thought on the concept of what a liberal is unless it’s in a portmanteau with the word retard.

          Au revoir my special friend.

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            Buddy if you’re not Canadian, then why would I care what you think?

            Least racist Canadian

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              If you’re not Canadian why would I care what you think or do, and why would I waste energy on a discussion that is personally insulting?

              kys

              Oh yeah you’re a real decent human.

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                You’re the one that keeping replying bro.

                If you’re not Canadian why would I care what you think or do

                That’s why I hate liberals they only care about their own personal freedoms and private property.

                Oh yeah you’re a real decent human.

                I’m only respond in the properly tone of your smugness debatelord.