Quote:
Originally Posted by blankall
Oh, please...don't state facts?
It's a fact that the Palestinians have not fully developed all the water supplies they have and do not pull the full amount they are entitled to under the Oslo Accords. They also lose large amounts of water to leaky pipes. They also have no "grey water" system and refuse to use grey water.
And Israel doesn't go in to the West Bank and steal the water. If flows naturally into Israel from there.
But I guess it's more convenient to say...the average Israeli has x times as much water as the average Palestinians or that Palestinians must buy water off Israelis (at a reduced rated, which was negotiated under the Oslo Accords).
It actually may all be a moot point anyways. Israel has invented a desalination process which will soon be cheaper than piping in water.
|
Here's the circular logic in action.
"They won't act like a civilized nation and upgrade their infrastructure, so we're going to embargo them to prevent them from upgrading their infrastructure.
See what nice guys we are? If they would just act like an autonomous country we would let them act like an autonomous country, but we they won't so we'll continue to not let them."
A third of Israeli water comes from internationally recognized illegal land settlements.
There's the 'two sides' thing, and then there's the rampant disregard for the rule of law and international opinion.