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Lebanon: Falafel War Goes to Court

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 @ 22:29 UTC

by Amira Al Hussaini

Countries:: Israel, Lebanon
Topics:: Food, Law
Languages:: English

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Líbano: A Guerra do Falafel Vai a Julgamento...

Arabs and Globalisation reports: ‘Just like the Greeks did, when they sued French dairy farms (and won) for using the word “Feta” to describe the cheese they sold, Lebanon is gearing up its own litigation forces to sue Israeli companies over marketing Hummus, Falafel, and Babaghanouj as “Israeli products.”‘

3 comments

Yarden

didn’t we have better things to fight about? oh right…

# 2008-10-8 at 11:09 am

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MeirCookBook

I feel so GUILTY….
Yes, its me. I took the recipe….and I won’t give it back :-) :-)
Hey Lebanon, Syria and Hezbollah (who have the copyright on the TERROR) stole your whole country!

Try to stop us if you’ve got the (felafel) balls

Visit me: http://www.MeirCookBook.net

Have a nice FALAFEL
Me

# 2008-10-10 at 6:26 am

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john

Israel’s Falafel Paraphernalia!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV9y24S_NF0

# 2008-10-30 at 6:41 am

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