So that's why
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September 2, 2011 | Share |
The Telegraph carries a report today http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/873...
regarding a deal by oil firm Vitol which won exclusive rights to trade with Libyan rebels during the conflict, following secret talks involving the British Government and which was said to have been masterminded by Alan Duncan, the former oil trader turned junior minister, who has close business links to the oil firm and was previously a director of one of its subsidiaries.
His recent outrageous comments regarding Israel can now be put in proper context.
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2 September, 2011 - 10:44 Rate this: 0 points | The Supreme Court did not call them a land grab only anti-Israel groups like the PSC and dare I say pseudo "peaceniks" like you call them that since it is difficult to see how you can grab something which actually belongs to you from someone who has never owned it - the Supreme Court called upon the IDF to weigh up the difficulties the barrier would create by its positioning with the actual benefit in saving lives and where the outweighed to move it - you would gain so much by actually reading the judgements instead of falsifying them. You see, [http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2009/07/bbc-tells-half-water-story.html] Israel, Jordan and the PA had been working with the World Bank to plan a canal from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea. The World Bank has approved a pilot plan for a canal linking the Red Sea to the rapidly shrinking Dead Sea, Former Israeli Development Minister Sylvan Shalom announced in 2009. Israeli public radio said the bank will provide 1.25 billion dollars in finance for the project. The initial proposal is for a 180 kilometre (110 miles) channel to transport 200 cubic metres of water, of which half would gush into the Dead Sea and half would feed a giant desalination plant jointly run by Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority, Shalom's ministry said. The next stage would see the construction of a canal to supply two billion m3 of water a year to maintain and increase water levels in the Dead Sea, which is on course to dry out completely by 2050 if nothing is done. This desalination plant would actually be the largest one in the world. It would go a long way towards addressing the scarcity of water in the region. And the PA is trying to stop the project by linking it to settlements: The Palestinian Authority said on Wednesday it would ask the World Bank to stop funding studies for a Dead Sea-Red Sea water project if Israel did not withdraw plans to confiscate West Bank land. Israel last month disclosed a plan to expropriate large tracts of land between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea, some of it areas exposed by the lake's receding water level over the past 30 years. Publication of formal notices in the Palestinian press triggered an angry reaction from the Palestinian Authority, which denounced it as a grab for 35,000 acres of their land -- equivalent to 2 percent of the occupied West Bank. If it goes ahead, the confiscation will separate the northern West Bank from the south, Palestinians say, ultimately denying them a viable state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as endorsed by major world powers. "If Israel does not halt this plan, the Palestinian National Authority will ask the World Bank to stop the two-seas project, linking the Red Sea with the Dead Sea," said a cabinet statement issued by Western-backed Prime Minister Salam Fayyad's office.Is Israel really confiscating so much land for this project? Is it really bisecting the territories? It is unlikely as it sounds. But notice that the PA has made a decision that its own water resources are less important than politics. The PA could protest any alleged land grabs in many ways, including appealing to a sympathetic US, but it chose a way that would jeopardize its own future water supply. Forever playing the victim. Poor Sunna from Faqua (an Arab from a village that did not apply to join the grid) is going to watch her son die because the PA decided that a political statement was more important than clean water for her village. Not only is the PA trying to penalize Israel's water supply, and its own water supply, but Jordan's as well! So yes I deny Israel is providing water resorces for Jews to the detriment of Arabs! |
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jonathancohen
2 September, 2011 - 09:33
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why were Duncan's comments "outrageous"? even Israel's Supreme Court has recognised that there has been a land grab when it comes to the security barrier. And Palestinians building shades from the sun in the Jordan Valley are subject to demolition orders, while even Israeli defined "illegal outposts" have yet to be touched by Bulldozers. And do you deny, honestly, that water resources are given to the colonists rather than the indigenous Palestinian population? So what was outrageous about what he said?