Water torture

Gideon Levy in Haaretz:

The Civil Administration is supposed to take care of the people's needs. But it does not stop at the most despicable measure – depriving people and livestock of water in the scathing summer heat – to implement Israel's strategic goal: to drive them from their lands and purge the valley of its non-Jewish residents.

The stealing of water, whether it did or didn't take place, is of course only the excuse. Even if there was such a thing – what choice do these people have? The authorities won't allow them to connect to the water pipe running through their fields; pipes whose water is flowing to saturate the settlers' green vineyards and fields.

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