"All this fellow traveller support does is to encourage a victim culture amongst Palestinians which acts as an excuse to stop them pulling their fingers out and building a democratic and economically viable nation state."There is a "victim culture" because the Palestinians are being victimised, over the decades."Parched: Israel’s policy of water deprivation in the West BankIsraelis, including those living in settlements, use an average of 247 liters of water a day per person – three times the quantity used by Palestinians in the West Bank, which amounts to 82.4 liters a person. In Palestinian communities that are not hooked up to the water grid, average daily water consumption is a mere 26 liters per person, much like the average in disaster zones.""The Israeli apartheid regime works to promote and perpetuate Jewish supremacy in the entire area it controls from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, through land and immigration policies, movement restrictions and – as this report shows – management of water resources. Within this single water sector, the regime deliberately creates a huge disparity in consumption. One group enjoys the luxuries afforded by a first-world water superpower, its lifestyle effectively impervious to weather conditions and climate change. The other – Palestinian subjects – suffers a chronic water crisis that stands to grow along with climate change.This policy clearly demonstrates the profound dehumanization Palestinians have undergone in Israeli society – a process that has enabled Israel to use the most basic of resources as a means of control and achieving political goals, even at the cost of keeping millions of people thirsty. This dehumanization also enables the systemic, cruel campaign to deprive the most vulnerable Palestinian communities in the hottest, most arid parts of the West Bank of their water sources, even in the blistering heat of summer, so Israel can rob them of what little possessions and land they have left and take over as much territory as possible, all in order to continue its settlement project and the dispossession of Palestinians."https://www.btselem.org/publications/202305_parched
David Ainsworth ● 54d