Comments on: Traditional Palestinian Farming Spurs Rare Plant Boom https://www.greenprophet.com/2012/04/traditional-palestinian-farming-spurs-rare-plant-boom/ Sustainably Driven. Future Ready. Thu, 12 Jan 2023 06:32:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Alice Gray https://www.greenprophet.com/2012/04/traditional-palestinian-farming-spurs-rare-plant-boom/#comment-34028 Fri, 06 Apr 2012 11:21:36 +0000 http://www.greenprophet.com/?p=70249#comment-34028 Look at this for example: http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/springwater-flows-in-the-west-bank-but-who-controls-it-1.422687

A total green-wash by the settlers. Given the track record or agencies such as the JNF and the Parks and Nature Authority in appropriating Palestinian land under the pretext of ‘greening it’, I think it is a bit of a disgrace that this article plays into the same narrative whilst at the same time lauding traditional Palestinian farming techniques. Let’s be honest: the Israeli government and their environmental agencies are the enemies of Palestinian farmers. We need to admit it and expose them for what they are, not help them to hide behind a facade of concern for the environment while they strip people of their rights.

]]> By: Alice Gray https://www.greenprophet.com/2012/04/traditional-palestinian-farming-spurs-rare-plant-boom/#comment-34026 Fri, 06 Apr 2012 11:04:56 +0000 http://www.greenprophet.com/?p=70249#comment-34026 I think that it is a glaring omission that the author of this article fails to mention that traditional Palestinian farming is under direct attack by the Israeli occupation in the West Bank. Government policies aimed at forcing people to leave Area C (which is 62% of the land area) are decimating the ancient culture and redefining the Palestinian relationship with the environment in a totally destructive way. People are being excluded from the land, rainwater harvesting cisterns that allow farming to happen are being destroyed by Israeli bulldozers, people are denied access to piped water, electricity of sewage infrastructure, the great efforts of organisations like COMET-ME who are trying to help people to live off the grid with solar panels and wind turbines have demolition orders on them as well. It is a total BALAGAN that abuses peoples human rights and promotes an ugly and environmentally destructive scenario of disenfranchisement and ghettoisation for the Palestinians while their land is colonised.

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