Review In Occupied Palestine - September 13, 2009

Another installment of "Week Review in Occupied Palestine":

First, "The U.S. pension fund giant, TIAA-CREF, confirmed in statements to the media on Friday that it divested from Africa Israel Investments, owned by Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev, earlier this year."

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Okay, so TIAA-CREF as with the case of British investment firm BlackRock did not divest from Africa Israel out of sympathy with the Palestinians, but simply out of monetary concerns because Africa Israel is about to declare bankruptcy. Nonetheless, Africa Israel is one of the Israel's biggest companies and its founder is a financier of illegal Israeli settlements; so the fall of the previously great, in a strictly objective sense. firm is a much welcomed development. It means less money for the illegal settler movement coffers.

And, then, Israeli democracy in action:

He quoted Zamel as saying that interrogation rounds continued day and night without stop and that she was deprived of sleep for three days. Interrogators employed various means during those rounds including threats, continued shouting, psychological pressures and others, the lawyer underlined. Zamel, 27, was taken from her home in Ein refugee camp in Nablus on 29/8/2009 and was held in Petah Tikwa detention center without anyone allowed to see her until the Tadamun lawyer managed to visit her last Thursday 10/9/2009.

It should strictly be noted that Israel is a democracy, but only for its Jews citizens. Arabs citizens have no meaningful rights, and Palestinians in the occupied territories have no pretense of right. The nation worthy of the title "the only democracy in the Middle East" is Cyprus.

A review within in a review:

A Palestinian child was killed by IOF in the Gaza Strip.- 6 Palestinian civilians, a resistance activist and an Israeli journalist were wounded by IOF gunfire.- IOF used force against peaceful demonstrations organized to protest the construction of the Annexation Wall in the West Bank.- IOF conducted 38 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and 5 into the Gaza Strip.- IOF arrested 22 Palestinian civilians, including two children, in the West Bank, and 5 children in the Gaza Strip.- Israeli naval troops continued to attack Palestinian fishers and fishing boats in the Gaza Strip.- IOF have continued to impose a total closure on the OPT and have isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.- IOF troops positioned at military checkpoints and border crossings in the West Bank arrested 6 Palestinian civilians, including two women.

Israeli values of justice: "An Israeli gunman shot and wounded two Palestinians in East Jerusalem on Friday, and police arrested the suspect at the scene, a police spokesman said."

Because the gunmen is Jewish and the two injured men are Arab, he will receive three months top in jail. If it was reversed, there would be 25 years.

And, finally, the resistance will exist in a thousand forms and never die:

The increasingly harsh political climate in Israel under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing government has prompted the leadership of the country's 1.3 million Arab citizens to call for the first general strike in several years. The one-day stoppage is due to take place on 1 October, a date heavy with symbolism because it marks the anniversary of another general strike, in 2000 at the start of the second Palestinian intifada, when 13 Arab demonstrators were shot dead by Israeli police.

The Israeli government and the U.S. media will accuse them all of terrorism against the innocent, poor state of Israel.