Another Week in Review in Occupied Palestine.

First, here is the generous spirit of Israelis:

A Palestinian taken by ambulance to a Jerusalem hospital was denied entry by hospital security, which may have been a factor in his death, according to a suit filed last week in the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court. The man died en route to another hospital.

It is nice to know that Israel is “the only democracy in the Middle East.” I mean that is so evident in how Israel treats Palestinians, both citizens and those in the Occupied Territories. Checkpoints, discrimination, torture, killings, and land grabs. Are these not the hallmarks of democracy?

And Israel can also count on its American lobby - pressure groups, PACs, think tanks, ect... - to propagate lies on its behalf. And, of course, a pro-Israel “think tank” can always be counted on to hold “fair and balanced” debate on American policy toward Israel. Recently, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy - a “think tank” stared by AIPAC, the head Israel lobby - held a conference on President Obama’s Mid-East policies. Here’s the verdict:

All three panelists said Obama was a failure, beginning with Mortimer Zuckerman, panjandrum of the Israel lobby, who said Obama “doesn’t know how to play the game.” Verdict shared by Jackson Diehl,
of the Washington Post–who said that Gaza

was a big “win” for Israel– a massacre, the greatest pr disaster in the country’s history. And by Michael Mandelbaum,
who supported the Iraq disaster

, saying, “Most Iraqis want for their country more or less what Americans want…”

Recently, a UN report accused Israel of war crimes and crimes against humanity in its December 2008-January 2009 Gaza massacre (killing over 900 Palestinian civilians of whom over 400 were children). Israel was accused of deliberate killing civilians. Hamas was also accused of war crimes. Guess which is ignoring and attacking the report and which is investigating allegations:

But Hamas officials in Gaza have also said that they would investigate.

Beware of those sneaky Israeli so-called goods (all produced on stolen Palestinian land):

Judicial authorities are investigating the appearance of a new Israeli product in the Lebanese market, according to pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat, which described the phenomenon as the latest ‘invasion’ of Israeli goods.

That’s it for today. Soon another update from the land of Palestine.