"Secret" Trade Into Iraq

[Found this story at The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler.]

According to the DEBKAfile, a semi-secret trade route between Israel and Iraq has been established in response to a demand for beer, but not only beer.

To meet the demand, trucks, loaded with beer produced in Israeli breweries working round the clock, roll nearly 1,000 miles east night by night, through Jordan and over two frontiers . . .

The convoys carry farm produce, foodstuffs, dairy products, eggs and ice cream, orders for which keep Jordan-based Israeli sales agents and their Jordanian counterparts with full hands and busy satellite phones.

It's estimated that the value of goods traveling from Israel to Iraq increased from $6 million to $42 million between May and June. This is a good sign. Continued increase in trade can't help but encourage increased mutual understanding and respect.