Call it racism, call it Israeli hospitality. A disgraceful report from the World Bank, showing that Israel is violating its agreements with the Palestinian Authority on fair share of water use, taking 50 percent more than it's authorized to do. And of course, Israelis have 4-5 times as much water as Palestinians have access to.
The World Bank
study found that Palestinians from lower socio-economic strata who are
connected to the PA's central water supply spend 8% of their household
budget on water, which is twice the globally-accepted standard. Those
who are not connected spend as much as one-sixth and even more of their
household budget on water.
The study also found that the impact of the water
shortage on the Palestinian agricultural sector was severe, estimating
that it had caused a loss of up to 10% of the PA's Gross Domestic Product, and 110,000 jobs.
It needs to be remembered that Palestine registered 106 out of 179 in the United Nations H.D.I. report updated in Dec. 2008. That means 1.6 billion people have a lower place on what the H.D.I defines as:
"The HDI combines normalized measures of life expectancy, literacy, educational attainment, and GDP per capita for countries worldwide. It is claimed as a standard means of measuring human development—a concept that, according to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), refers to the process of widening the options of persons, giving them greater opportunities for education, health care, income, employment, etc. The basic use of HDI is to measure a country's development"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index
Where is the outrage for this less fortunates?
The outrage is that the Palestinians are deliberately and as a matter of long term policy being impoverished and "returned" to "stone age" or as in Gaza "bombed into the stone age".
The outrage is against Israel who is responsible for this.
Outrage also toward continual, unconditional US support for commercial interests despite the human cost, whenever, wherever, world-wide.