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organizations. This support manifests itself in various ways, starting with the supply of resources that
enable staying in the field, such as water containers, sheds and water tanks, through legal help.
"Thus we are able to identify a significant increase in the dimensions of incursions into firing zones,
both in terms of the number of trespassers and the scope of construction that they have carried out.
This phenomenon poses a substantial security risk."
The Shin Bet-type terminology alone reflects the ethical and mental perversion that has inflicted this
system. Not that this is new. Five years ago, when the COGAT was Maj. Gen. Amos Gilad, the
system was full of creative ways to fulfill the government's order to allow only humanitarian traffic
through the Gaza crossings. That's why there were periods in Gaza when you couldn't find toilet
paper or sanitary napkins. That's how the system decided that Gazans could not eat pasta or hummus
with pine nuts, nor could they use shampoo that also contained conditioner. The industrious officerclerks
even drew up a draft setting the minimum calorie intake for every Gazan.
How can such ethical and mental perversion develop, that turn sheds and cisterns into a terror threat
that merits the gathering of intelligence? It's a combination of uniforms, lack of transparency, real
estate gluttony and biblical fads. It's true - they are only obeying orders. But it's also true that they are
the real government that rules over the Palestinians. It's a clique of clerks and officers that by the
power of their weapons imposes itself on a population that never elected them. There's no
transparency or accountability, only a sure promotion through the ranks until they get to manage
some corporation.
Honorable justices, Zanuta is not alone and its "solution" is not to be isolated. From the northern
Jordan Valley to the south Hebron Hills, the Civil Administration is protecting a law that its title in
contemporary Hebrew is "keeping most of the West Bank Palestinian-free." Your honors, this is the
policy you're being asked to ratify, unless you finally gather courage and wave a black flag.
―Using water as a weapon in the West Bank‖, 01/08/2012, online at: http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/using-water-as-aweapon-in-the-west-bank.premium-1.455087#
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