#if they had balls they would donate food to the gaza strip rather than pull these repeated pr stunts in israel

[sometipsygnostalgic]

This is an interesting move from Mcdonalds.

It seems that every government in the middle east turned against the company after they were giving food to israeli soldiers, and about 5% of the company's earnings come from the middle east.

So what they've done is bought it back from the local franchise owners - but they're still operating. They've removed their "trust" so to speak and are taking it in house so they can have more control over what PR goes on.

I think this is largely unrelated to the protesting that has been done internationally. Their sales have been hurt, but mostly in the middle east. They're throwing local owners under the bus and saying "NO, you should NOT give away free things that make so many of our customers rage". They're not actually changing their minds on whether they support Israel's actions or something.