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[Ayush Kapur]

Hello,

Please watch this video and share with your friends.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl7RCcYXGRk

Regards
Ayush Kapur



On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Ujwala Samarth <ujwala_samarth at yahoo.co.in
> wrote:

> I am sharing this blog by Mazin Qumsiyeh <mazin at qumsiyeh.org> which
> describes the way interested parties on all sides of the Israel-Palestinian
> divide, government and industry,  are pushing through the Red-Dead Sea
> project which will further destabilise an ecologically damaged and fragile
> region.
> >.
> >Ujwala Samarth
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Snow and subservience
> http://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2013/12/snow-and-subserviance.html
> >
> >It is snowing here in Palestine.  My visitors from Gaza (a child being
> >treated and his father) wish to go back to their family even though
> >their wife tells us that they have no water and no electricity and
> >that parts of the refugee camp that they live in is flooded (in
> >Rafah).  But we are all concerned for the even more precarious
> >position of refugees from Syria (both Palestinian and Syrians who
> >escaped the fighting and now live in tents in a snow blizzard).
> >
> >Those horrific conditions in Gaza, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan make it
> >even harder to understand the subservience to Israel of Mahmoud Abbas
> >and company. In meeting with journalists in South Africa, Abbas went
> >against the growing BDS movement that is supported by hundreds of
> >Palestinian civil society organizations.  Abbas said to journalists in
> >answer to a question: “No we do not support the boycott of Israel. But
> >we ask everyone to boycott the products of the settlements. Because
> >the settlements are in our territories..… But we don’t ask anyone to
> >boycott Israel itself. We have relations with Israel, we have mutual
> >recognition of Israel.” What mutual recognition is he talking about
> >since Israel does not recognize any rights nor does it recognize there
> >is a Palestine. His comments drew condemnation from South African and
> >Palestinian activists. Abbas also did not mention the refugees, the
> >ethnic cleansing, the Israeli apartheid, or even the close cooperation
> >between Apartheid South Africa and Apartheid Israel including in
> >nuclear weapon development.[that was part of the reason Netanyahu and
> >Peres both skipped the ceremonies as there was a call in South Africa
> >to protest their attendance]
> >
> >The denial of Palestinian rights to please Israel seems to know no
> >boundaries.  The World Bank just sent a press release (available in
> >Hebrew and English but not Arabic at the world bank website).  The
> >release hails the signing a Memorandum of Understanding  (MoU) for
> >implementation of Phase 1 plans of the horrific Red Sea-Dead Sea
> >project.  The Phase 1 MoU was signed by Israeli apartheid minister and
> >war criminal Silvan Shalom, by Minister Hazim El-Naser for Jordan and
> >Minister Shaddad Attili for the Palestinian Authority. The MoU
> >includes: a) the development of a Jordanian desalination plant in
> >Aqaba where the water produced will be shared with Israel free, b)
> >releases of water by Israel from Lake Tiberias for use in Jordan
> >(Jordan will pay for it even though it is part of the 1994 agreement),
> >c)  the sale of about 20-30 million m3/year of desalinated water from
> >Mekorot (the Israeli water utility) to the Palestinian Water Authority
> >for use in the West Bank (this is also Palestinian water), d) a
> >pipeline from the desalination plant at Aqaba would convey brine to
> >the Dead Sea to study the effects of mixing the brine with Dead Sea
> >water.
> >
> >My field of research focuses on environmental issues. All
> >environmental groups (even Israeli ones) opposed these plans from the
> >time that Israel as a colonial power tried to peddle them in the
> >1990s.  As all colonial powers, they destroy things and then destroy
> >in other areas.  The Red-Dead Canal is it is now known intends to
> >“save the shrinking Dead Sea”.   But there are two main sources of
> >decline in Dead Sea Water levels: A) Diversion of upstream waters
> >which resulted in decrease in water flow in the Jordan River from 1300
> >million cubic meters (mcm) annually in the early 1950s to about 200
> >mcm and B) Dead Sea water used per year by the chemical industries is
> >estimated at > 262 MCM. Both of these environmental problems are from
> >Israel.  Instead of reversing them, Israel (now with help of Jordanian
> >and Palestinian authorities) intends to create a new problem. It is
> >highly disturbing to see this trend of destruction, collusion, lack of
> >direction, and continued people suffering.
>  -- Mazin Qumsiyeh <mazin at qumsiyeh.org>
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