Israel denying Palenstine access to water

**Red_Lizard2** · 10-27-09, 12:07 AM

sort of, (again needed a short headline related to the story) still an interesting story, and i'm sure most will defend israel.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8327188.stm

Israel is denying Palestinians access to even the basic minimum of clean, safe water, Amnesty International says.

In a report, the human rights group says Israeli water restrictions discriminate against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

It says that in Gaza, Israel's blockade has brought the water and sewage system to "crisis point".

Israel says the report is flawed and the Palestinians get more water than was agreed under the 1990s peace deal.

'Basic need'

In the 112-page report, Amnesty says that on average Palestinian daily water consumption reaches 70 litres a day, compared with 300 litres for the Israelis.

It says that some Palestinians barely get 20 litres a day - the minimum recommended even in humanitarian emergencies.

Amnesty says that Israel denies West Bank Palestinians to dig wells, and has even destroyed cisterns and impounded water tankers.

At the same time, the report claims, Israeli settlers are enjoying swimming pools and green gardens.

In Gaza, Israel refuses access to many of the building materials needed to renovate the ailing water system, the document says.

It adds that Israel uses more than 80% of the water from the Mountain Aquifer - the main source of underground water in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.

"Water is a basic need and a right, but for many Palestinians obtaining even poor-quality, subsistence-level quantities of water has become a luxury that they can barely afford," Amnesty's Donatella Rovera said.

"Israel must end its discriminatory policies, immediately lift all the restrictions it imposes on Palestinians' access to water."

Ms Rovera also urged Israel to "take responsibility for addressing the problems it created by allowing Palestinians a fair share of the shared water resources".

Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev said the report was factually inaccurate, accusing the Palestinians of mismanaging water resources.

He also rejected the claim that Israel was preventing Palestinians from drilling for water.

The spokesman said Israel had approved 82 such projects but the Palestinians had only implemented 26 of them.

**~~hawgballs~~** · 10-27-09, 12:13 AM

It's no wonder........

**Red_Lizard2** · 10-27-09, 12:16 AM

another one to check out hawg is: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8318926.stm

didn't post it as more then two anti-israel stories would probably have people labeling me as a "jew hater"

**~~hawgballs~~** · 10-27-09, 12:18 AM

What? Commander hasn't labeled you one already?

Followed up with some ridiculous article form the JPost.....

**rock_lobster** · 10-27-09, 12:25 AM

Sounds like nothing but a bunch of finger pointing.

***COMMANDER*** · 10-27-09, 12:29 AM

Originally Posted by hawgballs

What? Commander hasn't labeled you one already?

Followed up with some ridiculous article form the JPost.....

Those articles are factual. Way more than that crap you get off cnn, msn, and those other far left leaning sissy columnist.

**Red_Lizard2** · 10-27-09, 12:31 AM

yes because they wouldn't have any bias towards Iran, Palestine, etc etc.

That's like expecting South Korean news to be factual about North Korea

**~~hawgballs~~** · 10-27-09, 12:41 AM

Originally Posted by ***COMMANDER***

Originally Posted by hawgballs

What? Commander hasn't labeled you one already?

Followed up with some ridiculous article form the JPost.....

Those articles are factual. Way more than that crap you get off cnn, msn, and those other far left leaning sissy columnist.

Please point any links that I ever made from any of those sites.......... I will bet that they make up about .001% of my posts. I link upstanding periodicals not trash from a right wing slanted, neocon, "Israel can do no wrong" fucking rag that you constantly quote from. It's funny how you assume that I watch cnn or msn, ........... PBS, BBC, Sun Times, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, NY Times....... reputable periodicals, not some neo-con source with an outright agenda as JPost.

What does sissy have to do with anything? Oh, Charles Krauthammer is such a toughguy, with his crooked crippled spine? Or are you talking tough, like Phyllis Schlafly, where the only thing tougher than trying to figure out her twisted logic, is her tough leathery skin? What do you mean by tough (Which I take it that you are implying that conservative columnists are opposite of sissy, which would be tough)? Have you ever seen a picture of George Will, Steve Chapman, Dick Morris, Jonah Goldberg, Larry Kudlow, Victor Davis Hanson? Do they strike you as tough? Or is it just their prose that makes them tough? That they can talk/type a good game.....? You keep making judgements of right and wrong by whose advocates "are sissies" and whose are "tough". I'll just keep on laughing at you, and periodically lampoon you.....

**CallousDisregard** · 10-27-09, 02:30 PM

I wonder what the truth really is ?
I would think the Israelis do go over the line but then again there is provocation.
But you don't have to hate and fear your neighbor to deny him water.
Look at California.
It's water not oil the next world war will be fought over.

BTW: we all know squirrelballs quakes in fear at the Herculean tread of this mighty writer