[[{"content_id":"101654","domain_id":"0","lang_id":"en","portal_id":"2","owner_id":"29","user_id":"1","view_accesslevel_id":"0","edit_accesslevel_id":"0","delete_accesslevel_id":"0","editor_id":"0","content_title":"Think if UK was usurped instead of Palestine","content_number":"0","content_date_event":"2008-04-29 12:29:00","content_summary":"","content_summary_fill":"0","content_body":"  \r\n \r\n \r\nJohann Hari made account of a nasty smell filling his nostrils in the Palestinian lands which was the direct result of Israeli siege or restrictions.\r\n \r\n"It is the smell of shit. Across the occupied West Bank, raw untreated sewage is pumped every day out of the Jewish settlements, along large metal pipes, straight onto Palestinian land. From there, it can enter the groundwater and the reservoirs, and become a poison," he wrote, asking how Israel founded 60 years ago has ended up throwing filth at cowering Palestinians.\r\n \r\nThe author slammed Israel for not allowing past the checkpoints any replacements for the pipes and cement needed to keep the sewage system working in a bid to punish the population of Gaza for voting to Hamas.\r\n \r\n"The result? The Centre on Housing Rights warns that one heavy rainfall could send 1.5m cubic metres of faeces flowing all over Gaza, causing "a humanitarian and environmental disaster of epic proportions", he wrote.\r\n \r\n"So how did it come to this? How did a Jewish state founded 60 years ago end up flinging its filth at a cowering Palestinian population," he asked.\r\n \r\nThe writer then turns to how Israel became a persona non grata in face of the Palestinians.\r\n \r\n"Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, wrote in 1937: "The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war." In 1948, before the Arab armies invaded, this began to be implemented: some 800,000 people were ethnically cleansed, and Israel was built on the ruins.\r\n \r\nThe writer then urges the readers to put themselves in place of the Palestinians and think bout the possible implications.\r\n \r\n"The people who ask angrily why the Palestinians keep longing for their old land should imagine an English version of this story. How would we react if the 30m stateless, persecuted Kurds in the world sent armies and settlers into this country to seize everything in England below Leeds, and swiftly established a free Kurdistan from which we were expelled? Wouldn't we long forever for our children to return to Cornwall and Devon and London? Would it take us only 40 years to compromise and offer to settle for just 22 per cent of what we had?"","content_html":"  <\/font>\r\n
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Johann Hari made account of a nasty smell filling his nostrils in the Palestinian lands which was the direct result of Israeli siege or restrictions.<\/font><\/div>\r\n
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"It is the smell of shit. Across the occupied West Bank, raw untreated sewage is pumped every day out of the Jewish settlements, along large metal pipes, straight onto Palestinian land. From there, it can enter the groundwater and the reservoirs, and become a poison," he wrote, asking how Israel founded 60 years ago has ended up throwing filth at cowering Palestinians.<\/font><\/div>\r\n
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The author slammed Israel for not allowing past the checkpoints any replacements for the pipes and cement needed to keep the sewage system working in a bid to punish the population of Gaza for voting to Hamas.<\/font><\/div>\r\n
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"The result? The Centre on Housing Rights warns that one heavy rainfall could send 1.5m cubic metres of faeces flowing all over Gaza, causing "a humanitarian and environmental disaster of epic proportions", he wrote.<\/font><\/div>\r\n
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"So how did it come to this? How did a Jewish state founded 60 years ago end up flinging its filth at a cowering Palestinian population," he asked.<\/font><\/div>\r\n
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The writer then turns to how Israel became a persona non grata in face of the Palestinians.<\/font><\/div>\r\n
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"Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, wrote in 1937: "The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war." In 1948, before the Arab armies invaded, this began to be implemented: some 800,000 people were ethnically cleansed, and Israel was built on the ruins.<\/font><\/div>\r\n
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The writer then urges the readers to put themselves in place of the Palestinians and think bout the possible implications.<\/font><\/div>\r\n
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"The people who ask angrily why the Palestinians keep longing for their old land should imagine an English version of this story. How would we react if the 30m stateless, persecuted Kurds in the world sent armies and settlers into this country to seize everything in England below Leeds, and swiftly established a free Kurdistan from which we were expelled? Wouldn't we long forever for our children to return to Cornwall and Devon and London? Would it take us only 40 years to compromise and offer to settle for just 22 per cent of what we had?"<\/font><\/div>","content_source":null,"content_url":null,"content_columns":"0","content_date_start":"2008-04-29 12:29:00","content_date_finish":"2008-04-29 12:29:00","content_date_register":"2008-04-29 12:29:00","content_date_last_edit":"0000-00-00 00:00:00","content_show_img":"1","content_show_details":"1","content_show_related_img":"1","content_show_slider":"1","content_show_title_slider":"1","content_comment":"0","content_score":"0","content_recorded":"0","content_confirmed":"1","content_status":"1","content_kind":"0","old_id":"101648","tag_id":null,"tag_word":null,"tag_service":null,"tag_total":null,"tag_soundex":null,"attach_token":"3916822610","attach_date_register":"2008-04-29 12:29:00","attach_id":"85677","attach_file_ext":"jpg","attach_file_header":"image\/jpeg","attach_img_type":"2","attach_img_width":"325","attach_img_height":"196","attach_file_media":"1","attach_show_watermark":"0","score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"visit_count":"175","visit_date_last":"2025-05-14 19:40:32","attach_title":"Think if UK was usurped instead of Palestine","node_title":"Latest news","ot_node_left_right":"[{\"node_id\":144, \"left\":49, \"right\":50}]"}]]