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CounterPunch
October
31, 2002
All's Well That
Ends Wells:
Parching the Palestinians
by ANTHONY GANCARSKI
More of the same from the land without people.
The October 22 HA'ARETZ reports that "Infrastructure Minister
Effie Eitam, head of the far-right National Religious Party,
on Tuesday ordered the Water Commissioner to stop all drilling
for water by Palestinians in the West Bank, as well as a freeze
on the issue of permits for future drillings." Way to go,
Effie! You seem to grasp what some in the world community don't;
namely, that the construction and usage of wells is tantamount
to terror. When those Palestinians demand hydration, what they're
really saying is that they hate freedom.
Indeed, Herr Eitam, you understand a
central fact of defending democracies. You understand that the
Palestinian Authority's failure to build water treatment facilities
is tantamount to a "water intifada." Assuming the PA
erected said facilities, one can't imagine a circumstance in
which Israeli pilots would bomb said facilities from warplanes
provided by the US government. One can't imagine a circumstance
in which some Sharon lackey would come forth and allege, in the
gravest imaginable tones, that those water treatment facilities
are really breeding grounds for suicide bombers. Or, better still,
that those facilities are in fact being used to pollute the Israeli
water supply. Holy water, really, given that it belongs to the
UN mandated Chosen People. Looked at in that context, one can
see the Palestinians as they really are.
The Palestinians are nothing more than
common water thieves, jacking the fluid of life from those newly-minted
Jews from Lima, from those imports from Brooklyn, from all of
those poor bastards sold a bill of goods to come over and settle
an allegedly unoccupied swath of land. In HA'ARETZ's words, "Eitam
said that some 250 unauthorized water drillings for agricultural
purposes were reported this year in Palestinian-controlled areas
of the West Bank. He added that every day reveals new illegal
connections to water pipes, used by Palestinians to irrigate
their land, which prevents the water from reaching Jewish settlements."
Illegal connections! Why, the Palestinians are just like those
folks in the US who steal cable television! Stop them or they'll
water their crops!
It speaks volumes about those who serve
in the US government that they are so willing to subsidize the
state of Israel. Time and time again, folks with more credibility
than I have compare Israel to South Africa at the height of Apartheid,
or to Germany in the 1930s, and there is very little offered
in the way of counterargument beyond "Israel has a right
to defend itself." But even in American educational institutions,
it is still possible to learn that history rarely regards measures
of ethnic cleansing as defensive measures. Until we find a way
to impart that historical knowledge to those thugs and miscreants
in Congress, the elimination of the Palestinian people will proceed
apace, prodded along by a thousand measures similar to the no-drilling
rule, all designed to deny the Palestinians the barest necessities
of life.
Anthony Gancarski's CONCERNED CITIZEN is currently being
serialized on Counterpunch "Weekend Editions." He welcomes
comments at Anthony.Gancarski@attbi.com.
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