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Comment from original article sums it up nicely: "So Jordan gets a shiny new water plant; Israel gets more resources to colonize the Negev Desert, and the Pale
by Zaheer 13y ago
Comment from original article sums it up nicely:
"So Jordan gets a shiny new water plant; Israel gets more resources to colonize the Negev Desert, and the Palestinians "get" to pay Israel for water that comes from a Palestinian aquifer." - joewmitchell
- ars 13y agoHow is that a Palestinian aquifer? The water comes from the Jordan river and the Sea of Galilee (Kinneret), both are indisputably Israeli (and the river is partly Jordanian). The source of the water is mainly in the Golan heights (again Israel) and partly in Lebanon (and governed by treaty with Israel).
- dimfisch 13y ago"colonize the Negev Desert"?? So Israel can't populate its own lands either?
- GabrielF00 13y agoThe phrase "colonize the Negev Desert" is incorrect in this context. Generally when people use the word "colonize" to refer to Israeli activities they are referring to building in the West Bank, which Israel has been occupying since the 1967 Six Day War. Many see Israeli efforts to build in the West Bank as illegitimate attempts to create "facts on the ground" that would perpetuate Israeli sovereignty over territory that it has no legal claim to. The Negev Desert, by contrast, has been Israeli territory since the creation of the State of Israel in 1948 and was part of the Jewish state in the 1947 Partition Plan. As far as international law is concerned, Israel developing the Negev is no different than, say, Poland building in Gdansk or the United States building in Hawaii.