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While the Occupation is business as usual for Israel, there should be no business with Israel In Occupied Palestine Zionism in practice Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Property (Compiled by Leslie Bravery, Palestine Human Rights Campaign POB 56150, Dominion Rd, Auckland, New Zealand www.palestine.org.nz) 09 October 2013 [Main source of statistics: Palestinian Monitoring Group (PMG). http://www.nad-plo.org/dailyreports.php] NB: We shall always do our utmost to verify the accuracy of all items in these IOP newsletters/reports wherever possible – but please forgive us for any errors or omissions (not of our own making) that may occur! L & M. Israeli troops open fire on Qalqilya residents 4am home invasions: Israeli soldiers abduct 2 children aged 13 and 14 Night home invasions: Israeli troops beat up 2 residents Night home invasions: Israeli Army occupies roofs of 3 apartment buildings Home invasion: Israeli soldiers, firing tear gas grenades, injure woman in her home Zionist fanatics set fire to 100s of Palestinian olive trees in 2 locations Settler arsonists set fire to villagers' cars and vandalise walls of mosque Night peace disruption and/or home invasions in 7 towns and villages 1 attack – 15 raids including home invasions – 2 beaten – 3 injured 3 acts of agricultural/economic sabotage 15 taken prisoner – 8 detained – 106 restrictions of movement Home invasions & occupations: 04:00, Abu Dis - 12:15, Azzun Atma - 23:50, Nablus - 00:55, Bethlehem - 11:10, al-Khadr - 23:45, al-Ubeidiya - dawn, Beit Ummar. Peace disruption raids: 01:45, Burqa – Jalod - 02:00, Hizma - 16:00, Anata - 09:25, Beit Liqiya - 21:30, Qalqilya - 11:50, Burin - 09:40, al-Ma'asara. Palestinian attacks: none Israeli attack: Qalqilya – 21:15, Israeli forces, positioned on the western side of the city, opened fire on two pedestrians, who managed to escape safely. Economic sabotage: Gaza – the Israeli Navy continues to enforce a three-nautical-mile fishing limit. Home invasions and abductions: Jerusalem – 04:00, Israeli soldiers raided the town of Abu Dis, searched several houses and abducted two children: Munzer Rwidi (13) and Ahmad Abu Nab (14). Home invasions and beatings: Nablus – 23:50, Israeli troops raided the city, invaded three houses, took three people prisoner and beat up two others: Ahmmad refa’i and Adham Shalabi. Home invasions and occupation: Bethlehem – 00:55, the Israeli Army raided the city, set up a flying checkpoint and occupied the roofs of three apartment buildings. Home invasions and occupation – woman – injured – tear gas casualties: Bethlehem – 11:10, Israeli troops, firing tear gas grenades, raided the town of al-Khadr, invaded a house, injuring a woman, and occupied the roof for use as a military post. There were several tear gas casualties. Occupation settler arson and agricultural sabotage: Ramallah – 09:40, settler fanatics raided Turmus Aya farmland and set fire to 30 olive trees. Occupation settler arson – mosque violation: Ramallah – 01:45, settler arsonists raided the village of Burqa, set fire to villagers' cars and spray-painted slogans on the walls of the village mosque. http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=637724 Occupation settler arson and massive agricultural sabotage: Nablus – morning, a Zionist mob invaded Jabal al-Mazra'a land and set on fire approximately 400 olive trees. Occupation settler violence – school disruption and vandalism: Nablus – a stone-throwing settler mob raided the village of Jalod, attacking the village school and smashing vehicle windscreens. Minors seized: Hebron – 19:00, Israeli soldiers seized and detained a child, Muhammad Abu Maria (13) and his brother Bader, a youth aged 17, at the entrance to the town of Beit Ummar. Raid – school disruption: Nablus – 11:50, Occupation troops raided Burin and the village school. SEE ALSO: Restrictions of Movement notes after Behind the Wall (below) News updates: Video (one hour) Apartheid Propaganda: Netanyahu Likens Palestinians to Nazis. RT's Abby Martin speaks with Max Blumenthal, journalist and author of the book Goliath: Fear and Loathing in Greater Israel, about the state-sponsored discrimination against Arabs in Israel, and how America's unflinching support for the Jewish state perpetuates Apartheid. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcarKXJgoyU Turkish court told Israeli troops fired from air in 2010 Gaza flotilla raid. http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.551817Israel has two nationalities, not one, and they need a federation. http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.551498 Mashal calls for massive popular armed resistance. IMEMC | Head of the Political Bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Khaled Mashal, called for launching massive popular, armed, resistance against Israel, and said that only armed resistance can deter Israel. http://www.imemc.org/article/66237 Israeli gunboats open fire on Gaza fishermen. 10 October 2013 | Israeli gunboats opened fire on Palestinian fishermen off the Gaza coast. http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=637435 Since 1967 Israel has razed over 800,000 Palestinian olive trees, the equivalent to destroying Central Park 33 times over. http://mondoweiss.net/2013/10/palestinian-equivalent-destroying.html Yair Lapid reveals true nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. +972 Magazine – Independent commentary from Israel and the Palestinian territories. In a recent interview with Charlie Rose in New York, Israeli Finance Minister, Yair Lapid, tacitly reveals why the Israeli-Palestinian conflict endures. http://972mag.com/yair-lapid-reveals-true-nature-of-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict/80215/ More: http://news.google.com/news/story?ncl=http://972mag.com/yair-lapid-reveals-true-nature-of-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict/80215/&hl=en&geo=AU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Simon Schama and the error of Jewish silence Posted: 9 October 2013 on Micah's Paradigm Shift See also: “...in some sense if you don't live in Israel – I don't live in Israel – you're morally obliged to be nearly silent, nearly silent." – Simon Schama, The Story of the Jews, episode 5, broadcast Sunday, 1 October 2013. It was the final episode. After four Sunday nights of television and three thousand years of Jewish history, here was the telling of the modern State of Israel. Simon Schama had entitled it: 'Return'. After all I had read beforehand about Schama's promise that the last part of his 'Story of the Jews' would make "the moral case for Israel", this final episode was a great deal more nuanced, considered and reflective than I had dared to hope for. Schama gave an appropriately agonised and conflicted portrayal of Zionism, both in its theory and its practice. It was light years away from the previous popular Jewish histories that I'd been re-reading over the summer as homework in preparation for what the BBC had billed as a highlight of the television year. Books by Cecil Roth and Max Dimont, which I'd first read as Bar Mitzvah presents in 1979, had been written in the 1940s and 1960s. They now looked badly marred by self-serving colonial views of Arab culture and suffered from a highly biased portrayal of the Jewish 'return' to Palestine from the 1880s onward. Paul Johnson's 'History of the Jews', published in the mid 1980s, stood up better to my 2013 scrutiny than either Roth or Dimont. But Johnson had just missed the start of the new wave of Jewish Israeli and Palestinian history writing that has since set the record straight and challenged the traditional narrative of brave, virtuous, morally entitled Jews – Versus – cowardly, intransigent, hate-filled Arabs. So a new popular history of the Jews was well over due if only to update the last 120 years. Thankfully, Schama had taken a great deal of the new thinking on board (even if the mainstream Jewish establishment and most Western political leaders are still struggling to catch up). Zionism's fundamental test In telling the story before 1948, Schama gave time not only for the big names in Zionist history, such as Chaim Weizmann, Ze'ev Jabotinsky and David Ben-Gurion, but also for the philosopher, Martin Buber, a hero of this blog. Schama described Buber as the most "thoughtfully tortured" of the Zionist idealists. Buber, he told viewers, knew that Zionism should not be "mostly about matters of power". For Buber, explained Schama, “if Zionism merely ended up reproducing the power play of the rest of the world, all of its achievements would be merely self-defeating”. Buber's fundamental test for Zionism would always be how it treated the Arabs of Palestine. It was a relief that Schama didn't try to duck acknowledgement of the Nakba of 1947-8 and the displacement of 700,000 Palestinians from their homes as the State of Israel came into being. He wasn't as clear as he might have been about how all this took place on the ground and he went on to look for a 'balance of suffering' by citing the Jewish refugees that had to flee their Arab homes in the aftermath of Israel's establishment. But this was opening the doors to a period of history that is still widely unknown or just deliberately ignored in Jewish circles. Schama did confront the Socialist Kibbutznik about the abandoned Palestinian village that his home was built on top of. He did dismiss the smiling and engaging West Bank Settler who based Jewish entitlement entirely on scripture. He did show the daily ordeal of Palestinians crossing the West Bank checkpoints like so much cattle at a market. He did speak to the Israeli Jewish author David Grossman (a philosophical descendent of Buber) about the dangers of the Jewish spiritual imagination and its attachment to the biblical Land of Israel. And then, in the closing minutes, Schama stood in front of the 18-metre high, grey, concrete slabs of the Separation Wall and wondered if this was Jabotinsky’s ‘Iron Wall’ against the Arabs come true. In another nod to Buber, he saw a Judaism that has had to "scurry for safety beneath the watch towers" during the last few decades of Israeli history. This was all a mightily refreshing approach to the subject matter and I hoped that the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the Jewish Leadership Council and the office of the Chief Rabbi would all be sending out the DVD as Hanukkah presents this year. But then came this: "I want to say that nobody, including me, ultimately has the moral right to say that the Wall shouldn't have happened....in some sense if you don't live in Israel – I don't live in Israel – you're morally obliged to be nearly silent, nearly silent." And that's where Simon Schama and I, having got along so well up to this point, had to finally part company. Not an option Silence is not an option I can subscribe to any more. In fact, I can’t think of a more inappropriate response to the on-going Occupation, the blockade of Gaza, and the institutional discrimination against the Arab citizens of Israel. Schama’s context was that the Wall had stopped the wave of suicide bombings that had killed 500 Israeli citizens during the Second Palestinian Intifada a decade ago. He failed to mention the number of Palestinian civilians that were killed during the Israeli suppression of the uprising (the total number of civilian deaths was actually much greater than 500 for both Jews and Arabs during the period 2000-2005). You can read about the full casualty figures for both sides here. I’m not for a moment condoning suicide bombing, but the idea that the Wall alone has been the cure for this immoral tactic of resistance is thoroughly disputed. There’s certainly not a simple ‘cause and effect’ that justifies its building in the face of international law and the deprivations it has brought. So what sets Schama and me apart? How have we ended up expressing a shared concern for the Jewish future in such different ways? I suspect the answer has much to do with what distinguishes liberal Zionists, like Simon Schama, from 'Diaspora-Universalists' (or, if you insist, 'anti-Zionists') like me. I believe it is Schama's attachment to Zionism that leaves him unable to articulate what has gone wrong in Israel and that causes him to take a vow of silence and then call it morality. For Schama, everything was basically okay before 1967. It has been the Occupation of the West Bank and the building of Jewish Settlements that has undermined what had been an ethical endeavour until that point. Schama sees Zionism as a movement born out of existential necessity, caused by the failure of the European nation states to integrate Jews, as Jews, into their societies. There is no question that the European Jewish story, through to the mid 20th-century, ends in an unparalleled tragedy, not just for the Jews but for European civilisation, and neither the Jews nor Europe will ever fully recover from it. But even this cataclysm does not provide the proof that Zionism was the only way forward for the Jewish people. Zionists (even American ones) appear to forget that while Europe in the 19th-century was full of setbacks and false dawns for Jewish emancipation, a whole different story was emerging on the other side of the Atlantic. Schama described this himself in episode four: 'Over the Rainbow'. The American story surely contradicts the central premise of Zionism that successful Jewish integration, on Jewish terms, is impossible. In fact, doesn't Simon Schama's own life and his successful UK/US academic career prove that progress is possible without the retreat to narrow nationalism. The ethical cul-de-sac For me, who wants to champion the Jewish Diaspora experience despite all of its many highs and terrible lows, Zionism has been a failed response to anti-Semitism. It has led us down an ethical and spiritual cul-de-sac that leaves us silent when faced with our own wilful displacement and slow destruction of another people. Zionism has created a whole new set of problems without resolving any of the issues it set out to address. How could we hope to deal with the on-going discrimination and persecution of the Jews by resorting to the same ethnic, nationalist and colonialist thinking of Europe that was feeding the growth of anti-Semitism on the continent in the first place? What's made the situation even more difficult to deal with is that Zionism succeeded in wrapping itself around Judaism's traditional messianic longing for the end of Exile. It was a sleight of hand that was challenged at Zionism's inception and needs challenging again today. Zionism does not, and never did, equal Judaism. But we are where we are. There is a Jewish State of Israel and now we need to find a path to justice, peace and security for Jews and Palestinians on which ever side of the Separation Wall they live. Staying silent though is not the way to get there. Gathered at the foot of Mount Sinai The rabbis tell us, through a Midrashic legend, that as the Children of Israel stood at the foot of Mount Sinai, all the Jews were there to see and hear Moses come down from the mountain top with God's Law. This was the moment when tradition says we received the words that would forever guide us to a just and faith-filled way of life. And every Jew was there. Not just the slaves on the run from Pharaoh, but every Jew that has ever been born, and all those yet to be born. That's a deeply affecting idea and once heard it seeps into the Jewish soul. And the message from the mountain top is what gave us the strength and adaptability to survive, scattered across the globe, when other kingdoms rose and fell and other civilisations came and went. We are a people with a shared faith, a shared heritage and a shared history that binds us together and creates a powerful feeling of being mutually accountable and mutually responsible to each other. When it comes to the Jewish story, we are all in it together. For me, that does not mean you stay silent when you see your brother or sister making terrible mistakes. When it has become abundantly clear that Martin Buber’s worst fears for the revival of a Jewish homeland have come to pass, then it is time to step up and speak out. Not remain silent. But Diaspora Jews have abdicated their familial responsibility. We allow Israel to speak in our name and keep our disquiet to ourselves. Or perhaps we simply close our eyes, preferring to slumber in a state of denial about the reality of Israeli power. Not the final chapter I have no doubt that the creation of the State of Israel is not the natural conclusion of Jewish history. It is certainly not our redemptive pinnacle, a miraculous 'Return' or a post Holocaust 'Resurrection'. How can it be when it has achieved neither the normalcy nor the safety that its ideological founders had hoped for? How can it be when it has turned us from a David into a Goliath in the space of a single generation? At this moment in Jewish history, "silence, or nearly silence", is not what is called for. Instead we should be remembering what we all heard at the foot of the mountain in that first period of enlightenment and wandering. The mission we were given was to build the just society by treating others as we would wish to be treated. The rest is commentary! So, rather than agonising in front of the Separation Wall and mourning a version of 'benign Zionism' that never really existed, we should be shouting from the synagogue rooftops for justice for the Palestinians in the name of Judaism and demonstrating with Jewish menorahs on flags outside of the Israeli Embassy. Or failing that, start a blog. I hope that in another 100 years we will be able to look back and see how a revitalised Jewish future began to take shape in the early 21st-century as Jews worldwide started to reconnect to their most long-lasting and resilient of values. As Simon Schama said at the close of the final programme:"The chapter is written but the book is not finished." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Further news sources Ali Kazak's newsletter Today in Palestine contains many news summaries that include both armed and non-violent methods of resistance to the Occupation. The newsletter also contains much other useful reporting. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Today in Palestine! www.groups.yahoo.com/group/f_shadi PNEWS Vacy Vlazna This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Behind the Wall Rich Wiles is a photographic artist who has been living and working in Palestine for some years. His photographic work has been shown around Europe, the US, Australia and in Palestine itself. Since 2006 he has been writing from Occupied Palestine under the title Behind the Wall. Much of this work is based in and around the refugee camps in Palestine, highlighting daily life and memories of refugees who still live in forced exile for over 60 years since Al Nakba (The Catastrophe). www.richwiles.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Life under Israeli military occupation Every area of Israeli-Occupied Palestinian territory experiences arbitrary restrictions of movement imposed by the Israeli Army. The lack of freedom of movement is the frustrating and humiliating background to daily life for the Palestinian people, whose suffering includes a variety of human rights abuses from night home invasions to wanton acts of agricultural and economic sabotage. The Israeli Occupation Army enforces a permit system for the benefit of settlers that determines where Palestinians may live in their own land. Water Across the Occupied West Bank, Israel's illegal settlements have completely free access to water. Settler homes enjoy full swimming pools and well-watered gardens while Palestinian access to their own water is severely restricted. Israel compounds this crime in two ways: The Zionist state forces Palestinians to pay the Israeli government public water supply company Mekorot[1] for what little water they are allowed and, at the same time, Israel forbids Palestinians to sink wells or even build water storage facilities. Palestinians living under Israeli occupation are restricted to about 70 litres a day per person – well below the 100 litres per capita daily recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO) – whereas Israeli daily per capita consumption, at about 300 litres, is about four times as much. In some rural communities Palestinians survive on far less than even the average 70 litres, in some cases barely 20 litres per day, the minimum amount recommended by the WHO for emergency situations response. In addition, reports by both the World Bank[2] and the United Nations Environment Programme show that the water crisis in Gaza[3] is likely to be both critical and irreversible by 2020. The reports show that Gaza is almost completely dependent on a coastal aquifer that has now become filled with undrinkable sea water. Both international bodies express concern that Israeli military occupation in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip means severe limitations on people's access to essential water supplies. Checkpoints Israel places checkpoints at the entrances to towns and villages to prevent people entering or leaving. Interference with people attempting to move around towns and villages consists of blocking roads with concrete blocks, barbed-wire and/or earth mounds. People attempting to transport farm produce and other goods find obstacles placed on the roads by the Israeli Army. Trucks have to be unloaded by hand and similarly re-loaded onto vehicles brought from beyond the obstructions. Road closures are used to isolate areas wherever the Israeli Army considers the presence of Palestinians to be ‘illegal’. When the Israeli Army declares a curfew, anyone appearing in the street or at a window is liable to be shot dead. There are instances of Palestinian mothers giving birth at checkpoints, having been denied ready access to hospital. Israeli soldiers deny medical help to boy bitten by snake. A young boy was bitten by a snake in Nablus on 11 August 2013 and was refused medical attention by Israeli soldiers manning a checkpoint. The boy's father, Tareq Abu Aoun, told Ma'an that his son Muhammad was bitten by the snake near the Hamra checkpoint in Nablus and lost consciousness. He asked Israeli soldiers to allow him to pass the checkpoint and call an ambulance, but they refused. An hour and a half later an ambulance did manage to gain access to the area and take the boy to the Rafida Hospital, where he was said to be in a critical condition. The boy's father said the soldiers were laughing as they left the area.[a] Agricultural and economic sabotage Both the Israeli Army and illegal settlers terrorise Palestinian farmers, often preventing them from working their land as well as frequently uprooting or setting fire to Palestinian olive trees and bulldozing their crops. The Gaza fishing industry is being crippled by the enforcement of a draconian fishing limit. The Israel Navy forces Palestinian fishing boats to remain within a three-nautical-mile, over-fished zone, sometimes at the cost to crews of life, limb and property. Gaza City's ruined international airport is permanently closed. Palestinians needing to enter or leave Palestine can do so only with Israeli permission. In addition to Israel's occasional massive bombing raids, Gaza residents are forced to live with the constant fear of overflying drones and the traumatising effects of sonic booms created by Israeli war-planes. The effects on the children of Gaza are particularly distressing. House demolitions and evictions The Israeli Army destroys Palestinian houses when they are built without Israel's permission. Israeli troops frequently invade Palestinian homes (often at dead of night) and abductions of Palestinian minors are commonplace while at the same time homes are often vandalised. Israeli soldiers frequently terrorise the youngsters with threats and/or by blindfolding them and tying their wrists behind their backs. Many children are illegally taken to prison in Israel, where more terror is practised against them, such as solitary confinement and shackling in painful positions for long periods. Israel’s toxic hazard weapon Israel has devised yet another technique designed to to drive Palestinians from their land and weaken their resolve to resist. It is a direct assault on their health that carries the menace of further agricultural and economic sabotage. For instance, activity at Israel's Barkan industrial complex generates growing quantities of polluting waste-water from the production of plastics, lead and other commodities that endanger human health. Pollution from Barkan flows into the streams that run through valleys where there are Palestinian farms as well as towns. Israeli Occupation settlements discharge their untreated waste to add to the pollution. This practice poisons Palestinian land, crops, farm animals and essential, if meagre, water supplies. Settlers – with Israeli Army assistance – release wild pigs, that reproduce rapidly, into Palestinian areas, spoiling agriculture and damaging olive trees, fencing and small buildings. The pigs cannot be controlled because Israel will not allow the people to own or use firearms, or even knives, to kill the pigs. Poison cannot be used because of the danger to Palestinian farm animals. Israeli Army checkpoints feed semi-wild dogs to release at night in Palestinian areas. Even in towns like Beit Sahour, the sound of dogs continually barking during the small hours makes sleep difficult and discourages people from moving around during the late evening or early morning. In addition, when conducting home invasions, the Israeli Army often uses dogs to terrorise residents. Tear gas – Israel's daily violations of the CWC Tear gas riot control agents, including tear gas and pepper-spray, are banned in international warfare under both the 1925 Geneva Protocol and Article 1 of the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)[1]. The CWC defines chemical weapons as “munitions and devices that are designed to cause death or other harm through toxic chemicals” that lead to “death, temporary incapacitation or permanent harm to humans or animals.” According to the CWC, “riot control agents” are any chemicals, not specifically named in their list of prohibited chemicals, that can cause humans to suffer rapid “sensory irritation or disabling physical effects which disappear within a short time following termination of exposure.” Belligerent military occupation by a foreign power is an act of war and when the Israeli Army fires tear gas grenades at Palestinian villagers in their homes or at protesters it is violating the CWC; the more so when standard weapons of war such as live fire accompany the use of tear gas. Persons blinded by tear gas cannot avoid live fire, rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades or military vehicles and bulldozers. But that is the reality for Palestinians living under Israeli military Occupation. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Protocol Forced evacuations of homes to facilitate Israeli Army military exercises An example of this practice is contained in an International Women's Peace Service (IWPS) report[4] on the Israeli Army's terrorising of a Bedouin community in the Jordan Valley. The report tells of a continual programme of Israeli military training in the village of ‘Atuf that traumatises the population. Every week 22 families, amounting to 172 individuals, are displaced from their homes from 4am to 5pm by Israeli military live-fire exercises. Since 1967 Israeli troops have been forcing the Bedouin people to leave their houses each week. Whole families and their livestock are displaced to outlying fields to the sound of gunfire and explosions. The entire area is designated “Area C” and there is a 'closed military zone' where nothing is allowed to be built or improved. A whole valley of fertile farmland lies uncultivated while the nearby Occupation settlement of Beqa constantly expands. In both ‘Atuf and Tamun countless houses have been demolished by the Israeli Army and many more are under demolition orders. Since 1970, 14 people have been killed and 30 have lost limbs due to exploding abandoned Israeli Army ordnance. The explosives can be as small as a pen, easily mistaken by children as harmless. The continual sound of explosions and gunfire results in many cases of psychological trauma, especially to children, and the only school in the district is within earshot of the weekly Israeli military exercises. Ethnic discrimination In addition to all of the above, Palestinians citizens of Israel as well as those living under occupation have to contend with more than 50 discriminatory Israeli laws[5]. These affect all areas of life, including rights to political participation, access to land, education, state budget resources and criminal procedures. Some of the laws also violate the rights of refugees. Israeli Army violence The Israeli Occupation Army enforces many of the above restrictions with the threat, or actual use, of military action as well as personal physical assault. Thus, daily life for Palestinians is conducted in an all-pervasive atmosphere of violence and fear. The Prawer Plan[6] The Israeli Knesset has approved a plan for the mass expulsion of the Arab Bedouin community in the Naqab (Negev) Desert in the south of Israel. When fully implemented, the Prawer plan will result in the destruction of 35 'unrecognised' Arab Bedouin villages with the forced displacement and dispossession of up to 70,000 Arab Bedouin citizens of Israel. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [1] http://members.stopthewall.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=1338&qid=381088 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Bank http://wedc.lboro.ac.uk/resources/who_notes/WHO_TN_09_How_much_water_is_needed.pdf [3] www.unep.org/PDF/dmb/UNEP_Gaza_EA.pdf [4] http://iwps.info) [5] http://adalah.org/eng/Israeli-Discriminatory-Law-Database) [6] http://www.truah.org/issuescampaigns/bedouin/government-response/prawer-plan.html#sthash.XiKpBPqZ.dpuf [a] http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=620082 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Visit http://www.sapienspromise.org/ for further news. 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