Israel cuts water supplies to West Bank during Ramadan

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Before the Zionists here get too pleased with themselves over having exposed this hoax, they ought to consider this one little problem that made this particular hoax possible in the first place. Why are the Palestinians of the West Bank not in control of their own water supply in the first place? The PA has been around long enuf that this is something that should have been placed under their control well before now.

Besides being the right thing to have done in its own right, doing so would also provide more Palestinians with jobs who would thus be less likely to engage in or support violent extremists. Even if Israel never does give up its control of the entire West Bank, whether by choice or circumstances, it is in Israel's own self interest to do all it can to keep things quiet.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

@Ernest
@YaBoyNy

Whatever helps you sleep at night and helps you feed your biases

Also, Ernest, "provide more jobs to palestinians"? You mean like what SodaStream did? BDS still protested against it. We can't win against you hypocrites.

Until the Palestinian Authority cleanses itself of the corruption and extremism that has always plagued it then we can talk about who can do what.

The nonsense that comes out of the PA didn't happen because "muh Israel mean" but, in fact, because it has always been run by crazies or corrupt sleazes.

I'm not a BDSer, so don't engage in the simplistic thinking of lumping all critics of Israel together just so you can attack the crazy criticism and ignore the stuff that isn't crazy. Indeed, let's please just stick to this one point, how to provide, if at all possible, the West Bank with a water supply that could not be subjected to such hoaxes in the future.

Even if the system collapsed after being turned over to the PA because of corruption, it still would advance Israel interests to eliminate this one area from dispute. Indeed, the only hope I see for any progress being made in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute is thru small issues such as this.since there's no will on any part to strike a grand bargain acceptable to both sides right now.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Just because it wouldn't be a 100% solution to the problem doesn't mean that it shouldn't be implemented.  At this point, the only reason I can see a total transfer potentially problematic as far as Israeli safety is concerned is if the chemicals used in water treatment could be diverted to nefarious uses, but even that would seem solvable. (At least solvable to the level that the problem would be no worse that what Hamas can smuggle in Gaza now, even if a total breakdown in order happened in the West Bank.)

Of course, if the reason to have not handed over control of water by now has something to do with allocation of the scarce water supply in the area, then I can see Israel's reluctance, especially as it tries to create more facts on the ground that will require more water from the ground.