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Israeli mango farmers leave fruit to rot as exports collapse

Growers warn industry faces ruin as European markets shun Israeli produce, Gaza and West Bank sales halt and extreme heat spoils crops; farmers leave tons to rot as calls grow for government aid and grassroots relief efforts try to stem losses

Yair Kraus

severe crisis as a combination of collapsed exports to Europe, economic boycotts linked to the Gaza war and an early heatwave have left massive quantities of fruit without buyers. For many farmers, the season is ending in losses of hundreds of thousands of shekels — or more.

“I left over 100 tons of mangoes on the trees to rot and fall because harvesting them would cost more than we could sell them for,” said Robert Amrosi, a veteran mango grower from the Galilee who manages 200 dunams of family orchards in Moshav Migdal.

'Harvesting the mango costs more than I’ll get for it,' Robert Amrosi (Photo: Effie Sharir)
The European market closed to Israeli mangoes after the Trump administration imposed tariffs on Brazilian mango imports, prompting Brazilian farmers to redirect their fruit to Europe — the main export destination for Israeli growers. At the same time, the Palestinian market in Gaza and the West Bank, which previously absorbed 10–15% of the crop, also closed. Farmers said European buyers “were happy” to avoid Israeli produce amid boycott calls. “All of this led to a huge oversupply in the local market,” Amrosi said.

The numbers are stark: “I harvested about 100 tons. Packing costs two shekels per kilo, harvesting another shekel per kilo, and I only got two shekels in total,” Amrosi explained. He added that more than 100 tons remained on the trees because the fruit wasn’t even worth touching. “We had temperatures close to 50 degrees Celsius for a week, which caused the fruit to ripen and fall. Harvesting costs make mango farming uneconomical. Today it costs 6,000 shekels per dunam for water, fertilizer and orchard care, not counting harvest and packaging. I’m losing nearly one million shekels, and many other farms won’t survive. Finance Minister Smotrich must intervene.”

The Fruit Growers Association warned that without government aid, the entire sector is at risk. “Israel’s mango industry, which supports hundreds of families in peripheral regions, is in acute crisis,” said CEO Yaron Belhassan. He added that parliamentary agriculture lobby members demanded direct compensation of 1,500 shekels per dunam and an expansion of the government’s compensation mechanisms, similar to those used for war damage.

Local initiatives have emerged to provide partial relief. Many farmers are selling mangoes directly to consumers, though the approach is not profitable for large orchards. Amrosi said, “Delivering 20–50 cartons to central Israel doesn’t cover transport and labor costs. Direct sales are not realistic for the massive volumes. The problem is also that supermarkets take huge margins — on ‘Keitt’ mangoes we get just 60 agorot per kilo. Packing houses don’t want our fruit, saying they can’t do anything with it.”

In one effort to prevent waste, Avocado Gal, a packing house in Kiryat Shmona, distributed about 30 tons of mangoes for free to local residents and villages in the Upper Galilee ahead of the holiday. Amir Bachar, CEO of the Galilee Development Company, said, “Instead of letting the fruit go to waste or be fed to livestock, we wanted to make an effort with the farmers and packing house workers to bring joy to residents after two difficult years of war and ongoing recovery.”

A new initiative, “From Orchard to Outpost,” has also launched, connecting farmers directly with soldiers. Volunteers purchase fresh mangoes from orchards and deliver them as gifts to army bases across Israel. “The idea is simple — rather than letting mangoes rot on the trees, we buy them directly from farmers, supporting them, and at the same time send them to soldiers guarding our borders,” the organizers said.

The project uses crowdfunding: a donation of five shekels funds one kilogram of mangoes, supporting farmers while giving soldiers a taste of home. So far, three tons of mangoes have reached military units across the country. “We’re all reservists,” said Erez, one of the volunteers. “Small contributions create a big difference — farmers get hope, and soldiers enjoy a real treat from home.”

Orlandoo:
Propaganda taken too far. As if it is only mangos that Israel export.

Sonnobax15:

Op,we don hear

Man shall not live by mango alone, but by every means through which terrorists can be wiped out of the surface of the earth..

FreeStuffsNG:
Farmers said European buyers “were happy” to avoid Israeli produce amid boycott calls. “All of this led to a huge oversupply in the local market,” Amrosi said.
Same Europe that urged them on is now tagging the Isreali mangoes as Genocidal mango. Smh.

It's now blood mangoes. Nobody with humanity and conscience outside Isreal will eat blood mangoes.

FreeStuffsNG:
Israeli mango farmers leave fruit to rot as exports collapse

Growers warn industry faces ruin as European markets shun Israeli produce, Gaza and West Bank sales halt and extreme heat spoils crops; farmers leave tons to rot as calls grow for government aid and grassroots relief efforts try to stem losses

Yair Kraus

severe crisis as a combination of collapsed exports to Europe, economic boycotts linked to the Gaza war and an early heatwave have left massive quantities of fruit without buyers. For many farmers, the season is ending in losses of hundreds of thousands of shekels — or more.

“I left over 100 tons of mangoes on the trees to rot and fall because harvesting them would cost more than we could sell them for,” said Robert Amrosi, a veteran mango grower from the Galilee who manages 200 dunams of family orchards in Moshav Migdal.

'Harvesting the mango costs more than I’ll get for it,' Robert Amrosi (Photo: Effie Sharir)
The European market closed to Israeli mangoes after the Trump administration imposed tariffs on Brazilian mango imports, prompting Brazilian farmers to redirect their fruit to Europe — the main export destination for Israeli growers. At the same time, the Palestinian market in Gaza and the West Bank, which previously absorbed 10–15% of the crop, also closed. Farmers said European buyers “were happy” to avoid Israeli produce amid boycott calls. “All of this led to a huge oversupply in the local market,” Amrosi said.

The numbers are stark: “I harvested about 100 tons. Packing costs two shekels per kilo, harvesting another shekel per kilo, and I only got two shekels in total,” Amrosi explained. He added that more than 100 tons remained on the trees because the fruit wasn’t even worth touching. “We had temperatures close to 50 degrees Celsius for a week, which caused the fruit to ripen and fall. Harvesting costs make mango farming uneconomical. Today it costs 6,000 shekels per dunam for water, fertilizer and orchard care, not counting harvest and packaging. I’m losing nearly one million shekels, and many other farms won’t survive. Finance Minister Smotrich must intervene.”

The Fruit Growers Association warned that without government aid, the entire sector is at risk. “Israel’s mango industry, which supports hundreds of families in peripheral regions, is in acute crisis,” said CEO Yaron Belhassan. He added that parliamentary agriculture lobby members demanded direct compensation of 1,500 shekels per dunam and an expansion of the government’s compensation mechanisms, similar to those used for war damage.

Local initiatives have emerged to provide partial relief. Many farmers are selling mangoes directly to consumers, though the approach is not profitable for large orchards. Amrosi said, “Delivering 20–50 cartons to central Israel doesn’t cover transport and labor costs. Direct sales are not realistic for the massive volumes. The problem is also that supermarkets take huge margins — on ‘Keitt’ mangoes we get just 60 agorot per kilo. Packing houses don’t want our fruit, saying they can’t do anything with it.”

In one effort to prevent waste, Avocado Gal, a packing house in Kiryat Shmona, distributed about 30 tons of mangoes for free to local residents and villages in the Upper Galilee ahead of the holiday. Amir Bachar, CEO of the Galilee Development Company, said, “Instead of letting the fruit go to waste or be fed to livestock, we wanted to make an effort with the farmers and packing house workers to bring joy to residents after two difficult years of war and ongoing recovery.”

A new initiative, “From Orchard to Outpost,” has also launched, connecting farmers directly with soldiers. Volunteers purchase fresh mangoes from orchards and deliver them as gifts to army bases across Israel. “The idea is simple — rather than letting mangoes rot on the trees, we buy them directly from farmers, supporting them, and at the same time send them to soldiers guarding our borders,” the organizers said.

The project uses crowdfunding: a donation of five shekels funds one kilogram of mangoes, supporting farmers while giving soldiers a taste of home. So far, three tons of mangoes have reached military units across the country. “We’re all reservists,” said Erez, one of the volunteers. “Small contributions create a big difference — farmers get hope, and soldiers enjoy a real treat from home.”

https://www.ynetnews.com/environment/article/rjervpxngl
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Righteousness2:
Comedy at its Peak!
From Technology to Medicine to Economy, Its ISRAEL.

The very phone or Device you use on lamenting and wailing is ISRAEL.
Throw them away hou are Serious about boycotting them


There’s something about ISRAEL that makes people uncomfortable, and it’s not what they say it is.

They’ll point to politics, settlements, borders, and wars. But scratch beneath the outrage, and you’ll find something deeper. A discomfort not with what ISRAEL does, but with what ISRAEL is.

A nation this small should not be this STRONG. Period.

ISRAEL has no oil. No special natural resources. A population barely the size of a mid-sized American city.
They are surrounded by enemies.
Hated in the United Nations.
Targeted by terror.
Condemned by celebrities.
Boycotted, slandered, and attacked.

And still, they thrive like there’s no tomorrow.
In military. In medicine. In security. In technology. In agriculture. In intelligence. In morality. In sheer, unbreakable will.
They turn desert into farmland.
They make water from air.
They intercept rockets in mid-air.
They rescue hostages under the nose of the world’s worst regimes.
They survive wars that were supposed to wipe them out, and win.

The world watches this and can’t make sense of it.
So they do what people do when they witness strength they can’t understand.
They assume it must be cheating.
It must be American aid.
It must be foreign lobbying.
It must be oppression.
It must be theft.
It must be some dark trick that gave the Jews this kind of power.
It must be blackmail.
Because heaven forbid it’s something else.
Heaven forbid it’s real.
Heaven forbid it’s earned.
Or worse, destined.


The JEWISH people were supposed to disappear a long, long time ago. That’s how the story of exiled, enslaved, hated minorities is supposed to end.
But the Jews didn’t disappear. They actually came home, rebuilt their land, revived their language, and brought their dead back to life — in memory, in identity, and in strength.
That’s not normal.
It’s not political.
IT IS BIBLICAL.
There’s no cheat code that explains how a group of people return to their homeland after 2,000 years.
There is no rational path from gas chambers to global influence.

And there is no historical precedent for surviving the Babylonians, the Romans, the Crusaders, the Inquisition, the pogroms, and the Holocaust, and still showing up to work on Monday in Tel Aviv.

ISRAEL doesn’t make sense.

Unless you believe in something beyond the math.
This is what drives the world crazy. Because if ISRAEL is real, if this improbable, ancient, hated nation is somehow still chosen, protected, and thriving, then maybe God isn’t a myth after all.
Maybe He’s still in the story.
Maybe history isn’t random.
Maybe evil doesn’t get the last word.
Maybe the Jews are not just a people… but a testimony.
That’s what they can’t stand.
Because once you admit that Israel’s survival isn’t just impressive, but divine, everything changes. Your moral compass has to reset. Your assumptions about history, power, and justice collapse. You realize you’re not watching the end of an empire. You’re witnessing the beginning of something eternal.

So they deny it.
They smear it.
And rage against it.
Because it’s easier to call a MIRACLE “cheating” than to face the possibility that GOD ALMIGHTY keeps HIS promises.
And HE IS keeping them still!

Righteousness2:
Comedy at its Peak!
From Technology to Medicine to Economy, Its ISRAEL.

The very phone or Device you use on lamenting and wailing is ISRAEL.
Throw them away hou are Serious about boycotting them


There’s something about ISRAEL that makes people uncomfortable, and it’s not what they say it is.

They’ll point to politics, settlements, borders, and wars. But scratch beneath the outrage, and you’ll find something deeper. A discomfort not with what ISRAEL does, but with what ISRAEL is.

A nation this small should not be this STRONG. Period.

ISRAEL has no oil. No special natural resources. A population barely the size of a mid-sized American city.
They are surrounded by enemies.
Hated in the United Nations.
Targeted by terror.
Condemned by celebrities.
Boycotted, slandered, and attacked.

And still, they thrive like there’s no tomorrow.
In military. In medicine. In security. In technology. In agriculture. In intelligence. In morality. In sheer, unbreakable will.
They turn desert into farmland.
They make water from air.
They intercept rockets in mid-air.
They rescue hostages under the nose of the world’s worst regimes.
They survive wars that were supposed to wipe them out, and win.

The world watches this and can’t make sense of it.
So they do what people do when they witness strength they can’t understand.
They assume it must be cheating.
It must be American aid.
It must be foreign lobbying.
It must be oppression.
It must be theft.
It must be some dark trick that gave the Jews this kind of power.
It must be blackmail.
Because heaven forbid it’s something else.
Heaven forbid it’s real.
Heaven forbid it’s earned.
Or worse, destined.


The JEWISH people were supposed to disappear a long, long time ago. That’s how the story of exiled, enslaved, hated minorities is supposed to end.
But the Jews didn’t disappear. They actually came home, rebuilt their land, revived their language, and brought their dead back to life — in memory, in identity, and in strength.
That’s not normal.
It’s not political.
IT IS BIBLICAL.
There’s no cheat code that explains how a group of people return to their homeland after 2,000 years.
There is no rational path from gas chambers to global influence.

And there is no historical precedent for surviving the Babylonians, the Romans, the Crusaders, the Inquisition, the pogroms, and the Holocaust, and still showing up to work on Monday in Tel Aviv.

ISRAEL doesn’t make sense.

Unless you believe in something beyond the math.
This is what drives the world crazy. Because if ISRAEL is real, if this improbable, ancient, hated nation is somehow still chosen, protected, and thriving, then maybe God isn’t a myth after all.
Maybe He’s still in the story.
Maybe history isn’t random.
Maybe evil doesn’t get the last word.
Maybe the Jews are not just a people… but a testimony.
That’s what they can’t stand.
Because once you admit that Israel’s survival isn’t just impressive, but divine, everything changes. Your moral compass has to reset. Your assumptions about history, power, and justice collapse. You realize you’re not watching the end of an empire. You’re witnessing the beginning of something eternal.

So they deny it.
They smear it.
And rage against it.
Because it’s easier to call a MIRACLE “cheating” than to face the possibility that GOD ALMIGHTY keeps HIS promises.
And HE IS keeping them still!

Righteousness2:
Comedy at its Peak!
From Technology to Medicine to Economy, Its ISRAEL.

The very phone or Device you use on lamenting and wailing is ISRAEL.
Throw them away hou are Serious about boycotting them


There’s something about ISRAEL that makes people uncomfortable, and it’s not what they say it is.

They’ll point to politics, settlements, borders, and wars. But scratch beneath the outrage, and you’ll find something deeper. A discomfort not with what ISRAEL does, but with what ISRAEL is.

A nation this small should not be this STRONG. Period.

ISRAEL has no oil. No special natural resources. A population barely the size of a mid-sized American city.
They are surrounded by enemies.
Hated in the United Nations.
Targeted by terror.
Condemned by celebrities.
Boycotted, slandered, and attacked.

And still, they thrive like there’s no tomorrow.
In military. In medicine. In security. In technology. In agriculture. In intelligence. In morality. In sheer, unbreakable will.
They turn desert into farmland.
They make water from air.
They intercept rockets in mid-air.
They rescue hostages under the nose of the world’s worst regimes.
They survive wars that were supposed to wipe them out, and win.

The world watches this and can’t make sense of it.
So they do what people do when they witness strength they can’t understand.
They assume it must be cheating.
It must be American aid.
It must be foreign lobbying.
It must be oppression.
It must be theft.
It must be some dark trick that gave the Jews this kind of power.
It must be blackmail.
Because heaven forbid it’s something else.
Heaven forbid it’s real.
Heaven forbid it’s earned.
Or worse, destined.


The JEWISH people were supposed to disappear a long, long time ago. That’s how the story of exiled, enslaved, hated minorities is supposed to end.
But the Jews didn’t disappear. They actually came home, rebuilt their land, revived their language, and brought their dead back to life — in memory, in identity, and in strength.
That’s not normal.
It’s not political.
IT IS BIBLICAL.
There’s no cheat code that explains how a group of people return to their homeland after 2,000 years.
There is no rational path from gas chambers to global influence.

And there is no historical precedent for surviving the Babylonians, the Romans, the Crusaders, the Inquisition, the pogroms, and the Holocaust, and still showing up to work on Monday in Tel Aviv.

ISRAEL doesn’t make sense.

Unless you believe in something beyond the math.
This is what drives the world crazy. Because if ISRAEL is real, if this improbable, ancient, hated nation is somehow still chosen, protected, and thriving, then maybe God isn’t a myth after all.
Maybe He’s still in the story.
Maybe history isn’t random.
Maybe evil doesn’t get the last word.
Maybe the Jews are not just a people… but a testimony.
That’s what they can’t stand.
Because once you admit that Israel’s survival isn’t just impressive, but divine, everything changes. Your moral compass has to reset. Your assumptions about history, power, and justice collapse. You realize you’re not watching the end of an empire. You’re witnessing the beginning of something eternal.

So they deny it.
They smear it.
And rage against it.
Because it’s easier to call a MIRACLE “cheating” than to face the possibility that GOD ALMIGHTY keeps HIS promises.
And HE IS keeping them still!

HenryWilliams:
Ogbeni, keep quiet.
Israel exists because of the US,.period.
There's no mystery or spiritual anything. Only fools and airheads believe such.
Jews control the US hence America will do the bidding of Israel. Nothing more nothing less.
You think without the overt backing of America, Israel can do a tenth if this rubbish they're doing?
Ogbeni,.give yourself brain and wake up.
There's nothing special about Israel once you remove US backing.
Iran proved that several months ago.

Righteousness2:
Comedy at its Peak!
From Technology to Medicine to Economy, Its ISRAEL.

The very phone or Device you use on lamenting and wailing is ISRAEL.
Throw them away hou are Serious about boycotting them


There’s something about ISRAEL that makes people uncomfortable, and it’s not what they say it is.

They’ll point to politics, settlements, borders, and wars. But scratch beneath the outrage, and you’ll find something deeper. A discomfort not with what ISRAEL does, but with what ISRAEL is.

A nation this small should not be this STRONG. Period.

ISRAEL has no oil. No special natural resources. A population barely the size of a mid-sized American city.
They are surrounded by enemies.
Hated in the United Nations.
Targeted by terror.
Condemned by celebrities.
Boycotted, slandered, and attacked.

And still, they thrive like there’s no tomorrow.
In military. In medicine. In security. In technology. In agriculture. In intelligence. In morality. In sheer, unbreakable will.
They turn desert into farmland.
They make water from air.
They intercept rockets in mid-air.
They rescue hostages under the nose of the world’s worst regimes.
They survive wars that were supposed to wipe them out, and win.

The world watches this and can’t make sense of it.
So they do what people do when they witness strength they can’t understand.
They assume it must be cheating.
It must be American aid.
It must be foreign lobbying.
It must be oppression.
It must be theft.
It must be some dark trick that gave the Jews this kind of power.
It must be blackmail.
Because heaven forbid it’s something else.
Heaven forbid it’s real.
Heaven forbid it’s earned.
Or worse, destined.


The JEWISH people were supposed to disappear a long, long time ago. That’s how the story of exiled, enslaved, hated minorities is supposed to end.
But the Jews didn’t disappear. They actually came home, rebuilt their land, revived their language, and brought their dead back to life — in memory, in identity, and in strength.
That’s not normal.
It’s not political.
IT IS BIBLICAL.
There’s no cheat code that explains how a group of people return to their homeland after 2,000 years.
There is no rational path from gas chambers to global influence.

And there is no historical precedent for surviving the Babylonians, the Romans, the Crusaders, the Inquisition, the pogroms, and the Holocaust, and still showing up to work on Monday in Tel Aviv.

ISRAEL doesn’t make sense.

Unless you believe in something beyond the math.
This is what drives the world crazy. Because if ISRAEL is real, if this improbable, ancient, hated nation is somehow still chosen, protected, and thriving, then maybe God isn’t a myth after all.
Maybe He’s still in the story.
Maybe history isn’t random.
Maybe evil doesn’t get the last word.
Maybe the Jews are not just a people… but a testimony.
That’s what they can’t stand.
Because once you admit that Israel’s survival isn’t just impressive, but divine, everything changes. Your moral compass has to reset. Your assumptions about history, power, and justice collapse. You realize you’re not watching the end of an empire. You’re witnessing the beginning of something eternal.

So they deny it.
They smear it.
And rage against it.
Because it’s easier to call a MIRACLE “cheating” than to face the possibility that GOD ALMIGHTY keeps HIS promises.
And HE IS keeping them still!

Rolings:
Jews no send you
And there are more Muslims In Israel than Christians
When they taunt you that they killed , Jesus and would gladly do it again, you still sheepishly take your money to go do tourism in the land of the Jews who take the money and chuckle at your foolishness

Righteousness2:
You are Wrong bro. Take it easy so you dont get HBP.
I SEND ISRAEL.
ISRAEL is the Fingerof GOD.
ISRAEL is the Apple GOD of Eyes.
YOU CANNOT KNOW JESUS AND HOS WORD THE BIBLE AND BE AGAINST GOD'S PEOPLE.
Any so called Christian that is against is FAKE.

DomPerignon:
What do they produce other than kompromat and mossad assassinations?

Rolings:
Jews are against Jesus and still taunt you with words like we killed Jesus and will gladly do it again
Yet they are blessed more than all you christians and still take your money when you foolishly go to their land on tourism

Abi you wan deny say God bless the Jews ?

franchasng:
Europe should continue playing with fire, the terrorism they are feeding indirectly will definitely end Europe.


Of course, Moslem Jihadists are gradually taken over most European countries, they will get a dose of what they are asking Israel to do; enable terrorism in their backyard just to please some people in the world



My beloved Israel, please don't mind them, we Igbos in Southeast Nigeria love Mangoes, being the Mangoes to us here we will gladly patronize you

DomPerignon:
What do they produce other than kompromat and mossad assassinations?

Righteousness2:
Comedy at its Peak!
From Technology to Medicine to Economy, Its ISRAEL.

The very phone or Device you use on lamenting and wailing is ISRAEL.
Throw them away. We will take you Serious about boycotting them


There’s something about ISRAEL that makes people uncomfortable, and it’s not what they say it is.

They’ll point to politics, settlements, borders, and wars. But scratch beneath the outrage, and you’ll find something deeper. A discomfort not with what ISRAEL does, but with what ISRAEL is.

A nation this small should not be this STRONG. Period.

ISRAEL has no oil. No special natural resources. A population barely the size of a mid-sized American city.
They are surrounded by enemies.
Hated in the United Nations.
Targeted by terror.
Condemned by celebrities.
Boycotted, slandered, and attacked.

And still, they thrive like there’s no tomorrow.
In military. In medicine. In security. In technology. In agriculture. In intelligence. In morality. In sheer, unbreakable will.
They turn desert into farmland.
They make water from air.
They intercept rockets in mid-air.
They rescue hostages under the nose of the world’s worst regimes.
They survive wars that were supposed to wipe them out, and win.

The world watches this and can’t make sense of it.
So they do what people do when they witness strength they can’t understand.
They assume it must be cheating.
It must be American aid.
It must be foreign lobbying.
It must be oppression.
It must be theft.
It must be some dark trick that gave the Jews this kind of power.
It must be blackmail.
Because heaven forbid it’s something else.
Heaven forbid it’s real.
Heaven forbid it’s earned.
Or worse, destined.


The JEWISH people were supposed to disappear a long, long time ago. That’s how the story of exiled, enslaved, hated minorities is supposed to end.
But the Jews didn’t disappear. They actually came home, rebuilt their land, revived their language, and brought their dead back to life — in memory, in identity, and in strength.
That’s not normal.
It’s not political.
IT IS BIBLICAL.
There’s no cheat code that explains how a group of people return to their homeland after 2,000 years.
There is no rational path from gas chambers to global influence.

And there is no historical precedent for surviving the Babylonians, the Romans, the Crusaders, the Inquisition, the pogroms, and the Holocaust, and still showing up to work on Monday in Tel Aviv.

ISRAEL doesn’t make sense.

Unless you believe in something beyond the math.
This is what drives the world crazy. Because if ISRAEL is real, if this improbable, ancient, hated nation is somehow still chosen, protected, and thriving, then maybe God isn’t a myth after all.
Maybe He’s still in the story.
Maybe history isn’t random.
Maybe evil doesn’t get the last word.
Maybe the Jews are not just a people… but a testimony.
That’s what they can’t stand.
Because once you admit that Israel’s survival isn’t just impressive, but divine, everything changes. Your moral compass has to reset. Your assumptions about history, power, and justice collapse. You realize you’re not watching the end of an empire. You’re witnessing the beginning of something eternal.

So they deny it.
They smear it.
And rage against it.
Because it’s easier to call a MIRACLE “cheating” than to face the possibility that GOD ALMIGHTY keeps HIS promises.
And HE IS keeping them still!