From clamormagazine.org
UK: $27K for your son. Israel: $200-300K for your property.
Who knew that one settler’s home in the Gaza Bank was worth 7.4 times the life of one Brazilian immigrant murdered by police in England?
The Israeli government has promised a substantial number of shekels to relocated settlers, starting at $200,000. Meanwhile, the London Metropolitan Police have sent a crass letter — offerring $27,000 — to the family of the deceased brasileno.
As most folks with access to the media know by now is that Jean Charles de Menezes was shot in the London Tube on July 22nd. What the corporate media was reluctant to divulge was that de Menezes was shot five times in the head after being tackled by numerous police officers. That excessive force and other questionable claims by the authorities — such as de Menezes’ clothing and how he entered the Tube — are keeping this investigation in the spotlight in England and Brazil.
And the withdrawal of Israeli settlers from settlements inside the occupied territories has proceeded in the last week, despite media coverage that was extensive and dramatic. (For perspective, when did Mugabe’s bulldozing homes in Zimbabwe merit such attention? or the eviction of Latinos in Long Island?)
Yet for all the uproar, those departing Gaza — whether asked, pushed, pulled — have a large check awaiting them. For land that was in occupied territories in the first place. A tactical move intended to secure a larger land grab in the West Bank, according to Gush-Shalom (who identify as the “hard core of the Israeli peace movement”).
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