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Chief Rabbi Gives Permission For Settlers To Poison Water In Palestinian Areas

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So the story is a hoax?

Good work.

So the story is a hoax?

Good work.

Quotes from the comment section
Story Claiming West Bank Rabbi Endorsed Poisoning Palestinian Wells Likely Zio-Hoax – Tikun Olam תיקון עול�

"The timing couldn’t be more convenient given the recent news cycle which offered a damaging story about Israel cutting off water to West Bank villages as they faced a massive heat wave."
Rami Hamdallah: Israel waging water war on Palestinians - News from Al Jazeera
"What better way to counter the bad press than to put out a hoax, which the pro-Israel press will jump on to ridicule the pro-Palestine media who swallowed the story hook, line and sinker."
"Maariv published a story last week in which the pro-settler group Ad Kan revealed that former Breaking the Silence spokesperson, Yehuda Shaul was filmed two years ago claiming that settlers poisoned a Palestinian well."
http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART2/787/798.html?hp=1&cat=404&loc=1
This claim is being used by Palestinians who are suing American Jewish settler supporters in U.S. courts. Settlers and the Israeli far-right are especially exercised when the testimony of Israeli human rights NGOs are used to “defame” Israel in the international community. All this appears to be the “inspiration” for the poison well hoax, and its connection by those who perpetrated it to Yehuda Shaul and BtS.
Story Claiming West Bank Rabbi Endorsed Poisoning Palestinian Wells Likely Zio-Hoax – Tikun Olam תיקון עול�

Israel and Chemical/Biological Weapons: History, Deterrence, and Arms Control
There is evidence from Israeli sources regarding well poisonings: Cohen begins by describing how Zionists during the 1948 war poisoned the wells and water supplies of Arab villagers. According to Israeli military historian Dr. Uri Milstein, the typhoid epidemic that spread throughout the costal town of Acre in May 1948 was the result of Zionist Jews contaminating the Arabs’ water supply. In Gaza the Jews failed in a similar attempt. The Egyptian Army found four Jews disguised as Arabs near the water wells. The four terrorists were caught with a canteen filled with dysentery and typhoid bacteria. All four were tried, convicted, and hanged within a three-month period. Dr. Cohen questions if the two incidents were isolated or part of a larger program of bio-warfare during the 1948 war.
By Dr. Avner Cohen
2001
https://archive.org/stream/pdfy-CQ6... Deterrence, and Arms Control (2001)_djvu.txt

“On 13 July 2004, residents of Hirbat Atwana near Hebron found rotting chicken carcasses in their well after four Jewish settlers were seen in the village.
On 9 December 2007, members of Christian Peacemaker Teams, an American NGO, reported to have observed a group of Israelis stop next to a cistern in Humra Valley, open the lid, and raise the bucket. The water was later found to be contaminated.
Oxfam, a British NGO, has reported that settlers deliberately poisoned the only well in Madama, a village near Nablus, by dumping used diapers into it; and that they shot aid workers who came to clean the well.
A United Nations survey released in March 2012 documented the increasing use of threats, violence and intimidation to deny Palestinians access to their water resources in the West Bank.
The survey stated that Israeli settlers have been acting systematically to gain control of some 56 springs most of which are located on private Palestinian land."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_settler_violence

The Emergency Water, Sanitation and Hygiene group (EWASH), a multinational consortium of NGOs funded by the European commission, accuses Israel of breaking this declaration, although there is a long list of other obligations under humanitarian law as an occupying power. In the past two years, it has logged the destruction of 100 water, sanitation and hygiene structures, 44 cisterns, 20 toilets and sinks, 28 wells. This year alone, 20 cisterns have been destroyed. Most of this is happening in Area C, which is under full Israeli military control.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/sep/14/west-bank-villagers-battle-water
 
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Quotes from the comment section
Story Claiming West Bank Rabbi Endorsed Poisoning Palestinian Wells Likely Zio-Hoax – Tikun Olam תיקון עול�

"The timing couldn’t be more convenient given the recent news cycle which offered a damaging story about Israel cutting off water to West Bank villages as they faced a massive heat wave."
Rami Hamdallah: Israel waging water war on Palestinians - News from Al Jazeera
"What better way to counter the bad press than to put out a hoax, which the pro-Israel press will jump on to ridicule the pro-Palestine media who swallowed the story hook, line and sinker."
"Maariv published a story last week in which the pro-settler group Ad Kan revealed that former Breaking the Silence spokesperson, Yehuda Shaul was filmed two years ago claiming that settlers poisoned a Palestinian well."
http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART2/787/798.html?hp=1&cat=404&loc=1
This claim is being used by Palestinians who are suing American Jewish settler supporters in U.S. courts. Settlers and the Israeli far-right are especially exercised when the testimony of Israeli human rights NGOs are used to “defame” Israel in the international community. All this appears to be the “inspiration” for the poison well hoax, and its connection by those who perpetrated it to Yehuda Shaul and BtS.
Story Claiming West Bank Rabbi Endorsed Poisoning Palestinian Wells Likely Zio-Hoax – Tikun Olam תיקון עול�

Israel and Chemical/Biological Weapons: History, Deterrence, and Arms Control
There is evidence from Israeli sources regarding well poisonings: Cohen begins by describing how Zionists during the 1948 war poisoned the wells and water supplies of Arab villagers. According to Israeli military historian Dr. Uri Milstein, the typhoid epidemic that spread throughout the costal town of Acre in May 1948 was the result of Zionist Jews contaminating the Arabs’ water supply. In Gaza the Jews failed in a similar attempt. The Egyptian Army found four Jews disguised as Arabs near the water wells. The four terrorists were caught with a canteen filled with dysentery and typhoid bacteria. All four were tried, convicted, and hanged within a three-month period. Dr. Cohen questions if the two incidents were isolated or part of a larger program of bio-warfare during the 1948 war.
By Dr. Avner Cohen
2001
https://archive.org/stream/pdfy-CQ6... Deterrence, and Arms Control (2001)_djvu.txt

“On 13 July 2004, residents of Hirbat Atwana near Hebron found rotting chicken carcasses in their well after four Jewish settlers were seen in the village.
On 9 December 2007, members of Christian Peacemaker Teams, an American NGO, reported to have observed a group of Israelis stop next to a cistern in Humra Valley, open the lid, and raise the bucket. The water was later found to be contaminated.
Oxfam, a British NGO, has reported that settlers deliberately poisoned the only well in Madama, a village near Nablus, by dumping used diapers into it; and that they shot aid workers who came to clean the well.
A United Nations survey released in March 2012 documented the increasing use of threats, violence and intimidation to deny Palestinians access to their water resources in the West Bank.
The survey stated that Israeli settlers have been acting systematically to gain control of some 56 springs most of which are located on private Palestinian land."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_settler_violence

The Emergency Water, Sanitation and Hygiene group (EWASH), a multinational consortium of NGOs funded by the European commission, accuses Israel of breaking this declaration, although there is a long list of other obligations under humanitarian law as an occupying power. In the past two years, it has logged the destruction of 100 water, sanitation and hygiene structures, 44 cisterns, 20 toilets and sinks, 28 wells. This year alone, 20 cisterns have been destroyed. Most of this is happening in Area C, which is under full Israeli military control.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/sep/14/west-bank-villagers-battle-water

So, the story in the OP is a hoax and now you are GISHing the thread.

Great job.

Shall I GISH along and post every mortar and rocket attack perpetrated by the peace loving Palestinians?
 
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