Israel blames the victims again. This time the occupiers are complaining about untreated water going back into the system. But it is Israel that has been preventing Palestinians from building water treatment plants. Worse than that, earlier his year Israel deliberately flooded some Palestinian areas by opening the Al-Wadi dam east of Gaza without warning the Palestinian side. An Israeli minister has threatened to cut off some water supplies to Palestinians in the West Bank unless they stopped “dumping untreated sewage”. “If the Palestinians continue to dump their waste water, polluting rivers and the aquifer, Israe l will stop supplying them”, Infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau told army radio. “Palestinians must meet their duties and connect to sewage treatment plants. Otherwise, we’ll give them drinking water but none for industrial or agricultural needs”, Landau added. The West Bank aquifer is a crucial source of water for both Israel and the occupied West Bank. The Western-backed ...

The hypocrisy of Israel sending rescue teams to Haiti while engaging in collective punishment of the people imprisoned in Gaza is quite sickening. Netanyahu brazenly claims it helps Israel to have 'a clean image'. I don't think anyone is fooled. The latest outrage committed against Gazans is the deliberate flooding of refugee camps following the opening of a dam without coordination with the Palestinian side.. So let us get this straight: it is imperative to give Israelis singular credit in saving Haitian children, while ignoring the fact that last year’s assault on Gaza killed hundreds of children and maimed thousands more, not to mention the 360 Lebanese children slaughtered during Israel’s 2006 offensive. With the American media locked in fierce competition as to who could lavish the most praise on the Israeli military for saving Haiti, another disaster was brewing in Gaza. Israeli officials opened the Al-Wadi dam east of Gaza in the wake of torrential rainfall in the ...