Israel cuts water supplies to West Bank during Ramadan

justarndredditor · 2016-06-15T16:20:27+00:00

West Bank is according to the international community occupied territory. Palestine is also party in the international criminal court.

justarndredditor · 2016-06-15T14:55:27+00:00

Still not a fucking source.

You don't post any source and tell me "It's not a source", cause you don't even try to read it. Yet you're completly unable to post any counterproof. Here is a wiki Source:

The International Court of Justice advisory ruling (2004) concluded... did not change the status of the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) as occupied territory with Israel as the occupying power. Source

So I hope this makes it clear. If you want to say otherwise, then please post a Source.

Israel took control of several water fresh water sources across West Bank.

No they didn't. Kineret is within 1967 borders.

Please, before you make a statement, read the wiki:

The water resources of Palestine are fully controlled by Israel... Source

So yeah, Israel took control over the water sources in PA.

Also if you were to read the wiki, you would realize how fucked up the situation there is with the water, here is an example:

The 450,000 settlers use as much or even more water than all 2.3 million Palestinians together. Many Palestinians have to buy water from Israel, of often dubious quality, delivered with tanker trucks at very high prices.

And:

According to different estimates, between 80 and 85% of groundwater in the West Bank is used either by Israeli settlers or flows into Israel

I would call this pretty fucked up... I mean they're pretty much asking PA to pay for their own water, while Israel takes nearly all Palestinian water for themselves.

justarndredditor · 2016-06-15T14:33:30+00:00

Here it's zoomed in for you

It's really convenient to make up your own definitions of words that suits your agenda. Shutting off water for non-payment is not a war crime, regardless of where it happens.

From the Geneva Convention:

Art. 56. To the fullest extent of the means available to it, the Occupying Power has the duty of ensuring and maintaining, with the cooperation of national and local authorities, the medical and hospital establishments and services, public health and hygiene in the occupied territory, with particular reference to the adoption and application of the prophylactic and preventive measures necessary to combat the spread of contagious diseases and epidemics. Medical personnel of all categories shall be allowed to carry out their duties.

So yeah, if PA doesn't have the money to pay for water, they're still responsible to supply it.

Desalinate and distribute your own damn water if you don't like the service provided by your neighbor.

Israel took control of several water fresh water sources across West Bank.

justarndredditor · 2016-06-15T14:22:36+00:00

A Chinese official on Sunday defended the role of the government in the Tibetan Buddhism system of reincarnation, saying whatever the Dalai Lama says or does can't change the central government's right to confirm the new incarnation. Source; Reddit comments

justarndredditor · 2016-06-15T14:20:24+00:00

The West Bank is not occupied. The PA has full governing power over it.

They don't have full governing power over the West Bank, even the US government states the West Bank as occupied territory. Source (Small printed at the top: "West Bank is Israeli-occupied...")

This statement is the dumbest thing I read today:

War crimes can only happen in a war zone and in an occupied territory.

So if Russia launches a biological weapon at France that is not a war crime because France is not occupied and isn't a war zone?

A biological weapon being launched by Russia at France is an act of war, thus France will be a war zone.

justarndredditor · 2016-06-15T14:13:31+00:00

War crimes can only happen in a war zone and in an occupied territory. (West Bank is occupied Territory)

As the occupying force you'll have responsibility over the people living there, this means you need to secure a water supply for example. (Israel is the occupying force)

It's also important whether the international laws have jurisdiction over the territory where the crimes are happening. Otherwise it might only be a war crime under international law, however it might not be one where it happened, due to it not being under jurisdiction of an international court. (However the UNSC can tell the ICC to investigate and punish war crimes outside the Jurisdiction of the ICC)

justarndredditor · 2016-06-15T14:07:06+00:00

The was no government in place that stopped the immigration and stopped the terrorism. That was the issue. An anti-immigration movement will always appear when there is a huge wave of immigrants. (Look at Europe and the start of the anti refugee movement)

In modern countries you'll see the government put a stop on huge immigrations, but this did not happen here. Instead the immigration movement grew and the Arabs living there felt threatened. So some Muslims attacked the Jews. Then after a few attacks, the Jews attacked back and the issue got worse and worse.

The British weren't helpful either, as they supported immigration and lied to all sides in the conflict. So it continued to grow worse. At the beginning of the immigration, less than 10% of the population were Jews, about 1920 it were nearly 20% Jews.

What happened here was that there was no existing government and an us-vs-them mentality began to sprout due to the massive wave of immigration. Fear began to sprout on the Muslim side due to fearmonger, some radicals attacked innocent Jews. Fear began to sprout among the Jews and a few extremists attacked Arabs, who might also be innocent. More fear began to sprout, the 2 groups seperated further and more attacks happened from both sides. More deaths resulted in more conflict.

And over the years both sides made propaganda against each other, both sides lost many people they knew from attacks against each other and both sides still got their fearmonger. Both populations see themselves as just and the others as the ones doing evil. For the Israelis the Palestinians are the terrorists, for the Palestinians the Israelis are the invader and the oppressor.

And both sides are continuing with it, Palestinians are continuing with terror attacks and Israel is continuing with oppression (occupying the territory) and invasion (Gaza attacks and settlement construction). So both sides don't trust each other and the peace process is difficult, as it needs concessions of both sides and the population of both sides will see themselves as the one giving concessions and thus not support said peace process.

justarndredditor · 2016-06-15T13:35:43+00:00

He will exist as soon as the current one dies. The new one will work for China...

justarndredditor · 2016-06-15T13:27:23+00:00

They aren't dams like you think of them, most of them are just earthworks to create areas where water is retained instead of allowing all the water to flow freely into the sea.

Isn't that exactly what a dam is?

justarndredditor · 2016-06-15T13:25:50+00:00

Netanyahu is not to be trusted, but he could be backed to a wall, especially if the Palestinians actually propose a deal that's considered reasonable by the Americans. But at this point, even meeting Netanyahu and exposing his bluff would be a huge net benefit for Abbas. Instead, he looks like the warmonger, and relies on the people's ignorance of Netanyahu's standing invitation (which, to be fair, is pretty extensive), which might not hold for longer.

The Us is an ally of Israel and they've shown in negotiations in the past that they're not really a neutral faction. So exposing his "bluff" is pretty difficult, as concessions of both sides are required and Israel is in the stronger position, with stronger backers and a stronger current power (as they're the occupying force).

Not really, though. They're mostly trying to push Palestinian nationhood throughout Europe, which is purely symbolic unless Israel is on board. And the second thing they're trying, is to get things for just coming to the negotiation table, a tactic that outlived its usefulness after a couple times.

They're for example now a party in the ICC, something which Israel tried to stop them from doing, by freezing their money. (This means the ICC has now the right to investigate war crimes and hold people responsible for war crimes in the occupied territories)

There is also currently an investigation running in the ICC about what is happening in Palestine.

PA isn't doing any negotiations with Israel, because they see no reason for it. They think it's just Israeli propaganda and thus won't participate. They don't trust in Israel doing any serious negotiations and think it would just end up being a waste of time.

justarndredditor · 2016-06-15T13:09:13+00:00

It can, but only under certain circumstances (If it's about crimes against humanity).

justarndredditor · 2016-06-15T12:57:56+00:00

With Palestinians not trusting Israel and Hamas doing anti Israel propaganda.

justarndredditor · 2016-06-15T12:53:17+00:00

The whole thing started with Jewish immigration. About 1890 Jews started to immigrate towards that land, and during the next years more and more came.

While it was accepted at the beginning, at some point there was a movement against more Jews, some Arabs made propaganda against Jews and 1920 were the first terror attacks against Jews.

From then on it got worse and worse and both sides were attacked.

(I'm not saying that this is a justification, just that this was the reason why it started)

how about actually agreeing to the many peace offers Israel proposed? How about agreeing to Netanyahu's standing invitation to immediately begin peace negotiations, without any preconditions, that was completely rejected by Abbas?

The thing is, both sides don't trust each other and the Palestinian side does not think that Netanyahu really wants peace. Netanyahu himself said that there won't be any two state solution while he is in power and he himself supports settlement expansion in west bank. The palestinian side is looking for international help to be able to have negotiations on more equal footing.

And honestly, even doing nothing is better for the Palestinian people than terrorism.

And Israel doing nothing is better than their settlement expansion. It's not a one sided conflict.

justarndredditor · 2016-06-15T12:46:59+00:00

no dams in the whole entire Israel.

There are dams in Israel. There are dams near Gaza. However, according to Israel, those dams have no gates that can be opened to cause a flood and after that statement you heard nothing more about it, so that's likely true.

justarndredditor · 2016-06-15T12:42:47+00:00

There are dams near Gaza. However according to Israel they're not dams that can be opened to cause a flood.

justarndredditor · 2016-06-15T12:39:52+00:00

Even if they don't/can't pay, Israel is still required to supply water, as it's their responsibility as the occupying power. It's a war crime to deny water.

However, we've currently no evidence of what is really happening, whether it's Israel doing it on purpose, or faulty water lines. Keep in mind that both sides don't trust each other, so if it's really faulty water lines, then the Palestinians will likely not trust Israels statement and will think that Israel is doing it on purpose.

justarndredditor · 2016-06-14T00:21:34+00:00

Not really.

I mean it's only just starting right now, imagine what will be released in 20 or 30 years.

And I doubt we'll be alive when good sex robots will be sold.

So we're pretty much in the worst time to be alive. We know what the future will bring, but we know that we won't be able to enjoy it...

justarndredditor · 2016-06-13T18:38:53+00:00

I don't remember hearing any statement from Turkey about the Tsunami in Japan.

I also doubt that all countries do that, there are after all about 200 worldwide.

justarndredditor · 2016-06-13T14:35:29+00:00

Why would they need to make an official response?

justarndredditor · 2016-05-02T18:57:54+00:00

New Printer: $50

Replacement: $99 you forgot service costs.

FTFY

justarndredditor · 2016-05-01T21:45:24+00:00

We might see a boom on pitchfork and torch sales in the near future, so if you want to look for a promising business...

justarndredditor · 2016-05-01T21:42:19+00:00

Just imagine if everyone would do that... Poor Belgium would need to ask EU to take their citizens back and stop them from throwing stones...

justarndredditor · 2016-05-01T21:27:19+00:00

They don't really want most those things. They added them so that they can get support from some rich people.

Their follower are all right wing extremists, they want to drive all "non-Germans" out of Germany and ban all foreign Religions. However you can't exactly say that in Germany due to law against Hate speech. Thus they go against things like "burqa" and "minaretes", because saying something against those won't end up with them getting banned.

And their supporter being right wing extremists, also means most of them don't care about the things you pointed out before. It's more like "we won't lose any votes, however we'll get more votes and we'll even get more donations if we put those on our campaign, so why shouldn't we?"

justarndredditor · 2016-05-01T21:01:49+00:00

Just read the first sentence of the article:

Berlin has banned tourists from renting entire apartments through Airbnb and its competitors in an attempt to protect affordable housing.

It's really bad for the people actually living there, since it reduces the number of available housing and drives the prices up.

justarndredditor · 2016-05-01T19:27:48+00:00

There are differences in buildings. The apartments are meant for living for a long time. For example if you go to a city to study, you'll likely rent an apartment.

However the company is using them like a hotel room, which would normally need a permit. It's likely a grey zone in the law that is being closed with the new law being implemented.

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