But ZioBots and their bought-and-paid-for politicians, intellectual hacks and academia would have us tarred and feathered for antisemitism.
Just goes to show you how that slur is just a way to cover up the glaring criminality of Zionism.
Zionism is ROTTEN TO THE VERY CORE.
ritzl
August 2, 2012 3:18 pm
If the camera pans up and to the right, the parched, brown Palestinian land from which the water comes is visible – by the people in the pool.
Down south here, we call it (not affectionately) the “plantation mentality.”
Fredblogs
August 2, 2012 3:26 pm
Oh, and the numbers just get worse when you check up on them:
250 mcm, not 105 mcm. For a usage of 83 cm per person per year.
Going by this, the setters are “allocated” 1450 cm per person per year, while the average Israeli uses 333. The distinction probably lies with the definition of “allocate”, as in, they aren’t using as much as is “allocated” to them. However, even taking this at face value, the ratio is more like 17.5X, not 70X.
Looks beautiful. However, considering the circumstances, it makes me want to puke. Also, the fence looks really weird and misplaced in the picture. The Israel flag there reminds me of why I hate national pride. It represents the sense of superiority and entitlement.
German Lefty
August 2, 2012 4:56 pm
There’s an interesting piece on the Haaretz website about the environmental problems in the West Bank, partly caused by the settlements. http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/settlers-yearn-for-environment-without-borders-and-without-palestinians.premium-1.455360 Settlers yearn for ‘environment without borders’ – and without Palestinians
A conference was held in Ariel this week to discuss the West Bank’s environment. No Palestinians attended.
[…] Dr. Nitzan Levy, director of the Municipal Environmental Associations of Judea and Samaria, notes that there is a significant difference between the organizational and professional capabilities of the Palestinians and those of Israel. He stresses the fact that the Environmental Protection Ministry hasn’t formulated a problem-solving strategy that takes into account the gap in the sides’ capabilities. In another part of the report, its authors admit that limitations on movement and access had made it difficult to build environmental infrastructures on the Palestinian side.
What the report fails to note is the fact that the very establishment of the settlements was a political act almost completely disconnected from environmental concerns or long-term planning. The settlements were built in order to grab land for Jews by establishing many dozens of residential points and small outposts, requiring the extensive – and expensive – dispersion of infrastructures and roads.
There were cases, also mentioned in the report, in which “The cost of the race to put facts on the ground by Israeli settlement activity was paid by nature. Some of the construction and expansions in the settlement program encroached on nature reserves.”
The outcome was that for many years the settlements did not have appropriate solutions to wastewater and solid waste. Some of the problems have been solved in recent years only thanks to the more numerous organizational and professional resources available to Israel. A prominent example is the settlement of Ofra, built and eventually expanded long before it had a reasonable wastewater treatment solution. Currently, the state is trying to authorize a wastewater treatment facility built recently without permits on private Palestinian land.
Pure colonialism.
But ZioBots and their bought-and-paid-for politicians, intellectual hacks and academia would have us tarred and feathered for antisemitism.
Just goes to show you how that slur is just a way to cover up the glaring criminality of Zionism.
Zionism is ROTTEN TO THE VERY CORE.
If the camera pans up and to the right, the parched, brown Palestinian land from which the water comes is visible – by the people in the pool.
Down south here, we call it (not affectionately) the “plantation mentality.”
Oh, and the numbers just get worse when you check up on them:
250 mcm, not 105 mcm. For a usage of 83 cm per person per year.
Going by this, the setters are “allocated” 1450 cm per person per year, while the average Israeli uses 333. The distinction probably lies with the definition of “allocate”, as in, they aren’t using as much as is “allocated” to them. However, even taking this at face value, the ratio is more like 17.5X, not 70X.
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/cur_sit/water.html
Looks beautiful. However, considering the circumstances, it makes me want to puke. Also, the fence looks really weird and misplaced in the picture. The Israel flag there reminds me of why I hate national pride. It represents the sense of superiority and entitlement.
There’s an interesting piece on the Haaretz website about the environmental problems in the West Bank, partly caused by the settlements.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/settlers-yearn-for-environment-without-borders-and-without-palestinians.premium-1.455360
Settlers yearn for ‘environment without borders’ – and without Palestinians
A conference was held in Ariel this week to discuss the West Bank’s environment. No Palestinians attended.
[…] Dr. Nitzan Levy, director of the Municipal Environmental Associations of Judea and Samaria, notes that there is a significant difference between the organizational and professional capabilities of the Palestinians and those of Israel. He stresses the fact that the Environmental Protection Ministry hasn’t formulated a problem-solving strategy that takes into account the gap in the sides’ capabilities. In another part of the report, its authors admit that limitations on movement and access had made it difficult to build environmental infrastructures on the Palestinian side.
What the report fails to note is the fact that the very establishment of the settlements was a political act almost completely disconnected from environmental concerns or long-term planning. The settlements were built in order to grab land for Jews by establishing many dozens of residential points and small outposts, requiring the extensive – and expensive – dispersion of infrastructures and roads.
There were cases, also mentioned in the report, in which “The cost of the race to put facts on the ground by Israeli settlement activity was paid by nature. Some of the construction and expansions in the settlement program encroached on nature reserves.”
The outcome was that for many years the settlements did not have appropriate solutions to wastewater and solid waste. Some of the problems have been solved in recent years only thanks to the more numerous organizational and professional resources available to Israel. A prominent example is the settlement of Ofra, built and eventually expanded long before it had a reasonable wastewater treatment solution. Currently, the state is trying to authorize a wastewater treatment facility built recently without permits on private Palestinian land.