BANKER URGES ARABS TO STOP INVESTING IN COUNTRIES SUPPORTING ISRAEL

Jakarta, Jan 12 (ANTARA)- President director of sharia-based Bank Muamalat Ridwan Amin has urged rich Arab countries to stop investing in European contries and the US which support Israel, and shift their investment to Muslim countries.
"As long as rich Arabs keep their investment in countries which support Israel and use Jewish fund managers, their investments will worsen the sufferings of the Palestinian people because Israel uses the Arab funds to kill thousands of Palestinian children," he said here on Monday.
He said the unlimited financial sources flowing into the Jewish coffers had made Israel boastful and obstinate.
"They use Muslim funds to buy weapons to kill our Arab brothers in Palestine. This is really an irony," the banker said.
Thus, he said, it was high time to launch a massive boycott not only of the products of Israel and its allies but also to stop investing in countries supporting Israel.
"Thereby, no more Muslim money can be used to kill Muslims (in Palestine)," he pointed out.
Israeli atrocities against Palestinians also symbolized the practices of usery economics created by Israel to conquer the world, he said.
Earlier, AFP reported that the Palestinian death toll in Israel's two-week-old offensive against the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip surged past 850 on Saturday as Israeli tanks and warplanes pounded the impoverished territory.
At least 854 people have been killed since the massive initial air assault on December 27, including 270 children, according to Dr Muawiya Hassanein, the head of Gaza emergency services.
Another 3,490 people have been wounded in the fighting, he added.