Their government is in Israeli prisons.
so you think they should do an investigation? because as far as i know their government is free and happy to kill and rampage and smuggle guns.
Their government is in Israeli prisons.
They are under occupation, they have to amass resistance somehow.
Is that comparison an admission that the rate of water extraction ("mining of water") far exceeds the rain replenishment rate (as it does in Mid west USA)?...but it's perpetually replenished, it's identical to the aquifer underneath the Midwest in America
I am not sure what you are stating here. Is "200mil" 200 million m^3 or slightly more than 1/3 of the total use. - That is what I think you are stating, but ask for clarity....Distribution of Israeli Water Supply Total Allocation: 537m m^3
*Surface Water (including rivers)- (30%) 161.1million m^3
*Desalinated/Reclaimed - (37%) 200 million m^3
*Coastal Aquifer - (30%) 161.1million m^3
*Rain Water - (3%) 16.1 million m^3
Remainders come from the mountain aquifer which have in history reached 200mil.
Again not sure what you are stating here. Are you stating that the expansion land under Israeli control was mainly where no one was using the Mountain Aquifer water? Some years ago, I saw a map (from Israeli sources) that showed the planned rout of the "security wall" over laid with the location of producing wells. That map indicated clearly a correlation - implying that capture of water resources did enter into the design of the wall's route. Your map above does not show this. In fact it shows the "good water" / "bad water" boundary almost identical with the green line. That is so improbable that clearly it has been designed to obscure the facts show in the older map....None of that matters since that "Green Line" isn't modern history, so it's a fault claim.
The law that transferred Israeli land to "Palestinians" included "The Occupied Territories"...well okay. None of the land that they are using to get the water supplies were occupied! Is it Jews fault that the arab neighbors who helped contract the deal have 6th grade law educations?
If the documents signed by Palestinian authorities are valid, Israel has legal right to the land.
An Ottawa woman and her two teenage daughters were hoping to enter Gaza Strip today, after Israeli authorities reversed an earlier decision and granted the trio permission to enter the troubled Palestinian territory.
"I am very, very happy," an exultant Saadiya Joha, 34, told the Star last night after making the two-hour drive from Jerusalem to Erez Crossing, currently the only entry point into Gaza from Israel. "My kids are very happy. I want to see my father really bad."
The woman's 79-year-old father, Biab Joha, is in failing health in Gaza, and she feared he would die before she and her daughters had a last chance to see him.
Joha and her two daughters – Fatima, 16, and Afaf, 13 – had hoped to cross into Gaza yesterday afternoon, but the border was closed by the time they reached Erez.
The crossing was to reopen at 8 a.m. today.
For the past two weeks, the trio have slept on the floor of the vast Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem's Old City, unable to afford a hotel, while waiting to learn whether the Israel Defense Forces would rescind an earlier decision denying them access to Gaza.
After entering Israel from Jordan by land on Sept. 14, the trio tried to enter Gaza, but Israeli authorities refused to let them pass. The Israeli military gave no reason either for its initial ruling or for its reversal of that decision yesterday.
But Itamar Shachar, spokesperson for Gisha, an Israeli agency that advocates freedom of movement for Palestinians, credited media coverage for the change of heart by Israeli officials.
A task force of Israeli doctors was banned on Wednesday from entering the Gaza Strip, although their entry has been approved by Israel Defense Forces a few days ago.
The members of the organization Physicians for Human Rights were supposed to offer, over a three-day sojourn, medical services that are unavailable in the besieged territory.
"We were they only hope for 400 Palestinian patients who were supposed to receive treatment, and were fasting since yesterday because of the operation they were supposed to undergo today," said the oncologist Dr. Abed A'baria, on his way home from the Erez Crossing.
"The army told us that we were denied entry for security reasons," he said.
The armed wing of Islamic Hamas movement on Wednesday said Israeli army exercises and training on Gaza Strip borders prove that Israel prepares for offensive.
Abu Obaida, a spokesman for al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas, rejected Israeli statements that these training were defensive."The Israeli occupation has never been in a state of defense," AbuObaida said.
He added these training "on Gaza Strip borders, in the air and in its sea reveal what the occupation plans to do in the coming days."
Weekly report on Israeli human rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territory 25 Sep - 08 Oct 2008
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue Systematic Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)
- Israeli settlers killed a Palestinian civilian in near Nablus.
- 16 Palestinian civilians, including four children, and a Scottish human rights defender, were wounded by the IOF gunfire.
- Nine of the wounded were wounded during peaceful demonstrations against the construction of the Annexation Wall.
- IOF conducted 38 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank.
- IOF arrested 59 Palestinian civilians, including 13 children and a woman.
- IOF violently assaulted a number of Palestinian civilians during house raids.
- IOF arrested 2 Palestinian civilians near the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel.
- IOF have continued to impose a total siege on the OPT and have isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.
- IOF imposed a comprehensive closure on the OPT for the Jewish Kipurim festival.
- IOF troops positioned at various checkpoints in the West Bank arrested 2 Palestinian civilians.
- IOF held a number of journalists near a settlement in the West Bank.
- IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attacks Palestinian civilians and property.
- Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian civilians and property.
- Four Palestinian civilians and two human rights defenders were injured.
- Israeli settlers deliberately set fire to dozens of olive trees.
Am I the only person who thinks the jews would have been better off without the creation of the nation of Israel?
maybe we would be better off if people like wouldnt exist in the first place?
That is an interesting question. With only a minute of thought, and in recognition of how it was done, I think yes they would have been, perhaps more so than any of the nationless peoples, like the Kurds, the Gypsies, as the Jews have a culture that respects knowledge and personnal achievements, especially skills and academically (more so than athletics for example.) One that also celebrates life.Am I the only person who thinks the jews would have been better off without the creation of the nation of Israel?
Many in Africa or South America if the price was right. About half of the US was obtained by purchase (from the French and the Russians mainly.)Which country would have sold land to them?
Many in Africa or South America if the price was right. About half of the US was obtained by purchase (from the French and the Russians mainly.)
Even where Israel is now land could have been bought.
The US did a pretty good job of relocating the natives as well.