Antisemitic shite at The Independent
The smell of shit WE get is Johann Hari. His "Israel reminds me of Shit" article is completely shredded by Honestreporting http://www.honestreporting.co.uk/articles/critiques/new/Johann_Haris_Stinking_Op-Ed.asp
Not only does he falsify a quote attributed to Ben Gurion he ignores the fact that Benny Morris, who is credited with reporting that quote actually sent a retraction to The Independent.
ShitHari doesn't actually state the name of the place in The West Bank where he had his corophilia-like experience. Neither does he explain how this shit gets into Gaza and floods it in a "tsunami of human excrement". He refers to an incident in Gaza resulting in Palestinian deaths by drowning in sewage. Is this the incident where a sewage plant collapsed because Hamas refused to maintain it despite advice from Israel and where Israel treated some victims in its hospital and offered to send dredging vessels?
But it may not be Israelis 'shitting on Palestinians" but Palestinians shitting on Palestinians:=
Side by Side, Arabs and Israelis Repair a Wreck of a RiverTwenty yards past the so-called green line that separates Israel and the West Bank, a tributary of the Alexander, filled with human waste from the Palestinian cities of Nablus and Tulkarm and from 70 other sources of pollution, has been diverted into the Yad Hannah complex. There it is cleansed in settling ponds and purification equipment.
"Prior to the Yad Hannah plant," Mr. Brandeis said, "the raw sewage simply flowed into the riverbed and contaminated the groundwater, the Nablus stream and the Alexander River."
Still, the new plant is just the first stage, he said, adding, "The capacity of the existing plant is not enough for the long term."
In Israel, wastes from dairy farms have been diverted from the Alexander. Since 1994, three large reservoirs have been built — at a cost of $4 million to $7 million each — to receive wastewater, which is treated and then reused for watering local citrus and avocado groves.
......Palestinians plan to restore the sewage ponds in Tulkarm, where raw sewage flows into the river. They will have the help of the German government, which got involved after Mayor Itzkovitz got in touch with friends in the German Parliament in 1996.
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But chaos on the West Bank may impede progress. Edward Abington, a former United States consul general in Jerusalem who is now a political adviser to the Palestinian Authority, said that with the authority "almost in a state of disintegration," local government was no longer effective.
Sustainable Development in the Palestinian Authority (Jerusalem 2002)
http://www.israel-mfa.gov.il/MFA/Peace%20Process/Guide%20to%20the%20Peace%20Process/Sustainable%20Development%20in%20the%20Palestinian%20Authori
Sewage
In the large cities, sewage collection systems exist, but either they do not include treatment facilities or the facilities are not functioning. The untreated sewage flows into the streams and seeps into the groundwater, eventually reaching Israel as well. The sewage provides a breeding ground for mosquitoes and disease that affects both sides. In the villages, there is no centralized drainage system, and the sewage flows into cesspools.
Specifics: The treatment facility in Jenin is not functioning, due to maintenance problems. The civil administration is providing the funding for an upgrade of the facility. Most of the work has been completed, and the neighboring villages will also be able to connect to it. Kalkilya is connected to a sewage treatment facility in Israel; however, it sometimes overflows at the point of connection, in the village of Hableh.
At present, both Tulkarm and Nablus lack sewage treatment facilities, but there is a plan to build one in Tulkarm, and land has been allocated in Nablus for that purpose. Ramallah has had a facility since 1975, but it is inadequate for today's needs.
The treatment facility in El-Bira was built with funds from donor states and is located in Area C (Israeli civilian and security control). A-Ram, Bir Nballah and Eljib, north of Jerusalem, are connected to the Givat Ze'ev sewage system.
Sewage from the city of Hebron flows south into the Hebron River. There is a possibility that USAID and the Ministry of National Infrastructures may fund the building of a treatment facility there.
Sewage from Beit Jalla and western Bethlehem drains into the Jerusalem treatment system. The sewage of Beit Sahur and eastern Bethlehem flows into the Kidron River and, together with effluents from Jerusalem, on to the Dead Sea. Some of the effluents from El Azaria threaten to contaminate the area's fresh water sources.
A treatment facility is being planned in Nebi Mussa that will be able to capture wastewater from the Kidron River and purify it. Jericho and the neighboring villages are connected to septic tanks.
The situation in Gaza is not good - the facilities in the Hanoun River are not operating; the oxygenation pools of Gaza City were renovated but the sewage still spills onto the beach. In Rafah, Gaza and Dir El-Balah, effluents are directed into the sea. International efforts halted similar Palestinian plans for Beit Lahia.
Obviously, Hari's apparent fetish with the smell of shit has pervaded his writing! Now, some people would pay a lot to be able to invoke that smell at will!!!!
The Useful Idiot