No comment although I have them.

[David Morris]

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/12/gaza-undrinkable-water-slowly-poisoning-people

Gaza City – The water crisis in the Gaza Strip affects every one of the
coastal enclave’s two million inhabitants.

Heavily polluted water resources in the strip also have a serious impact on
public health, with children, in particular, facing the risk of water-borne
disease.

The crisis has worsened during the past decades years because of the
punishing Israeli blockade, the reduction of humanitarian funding, and the
series of Israeli military attacks.

Abdelkarim said residents have access to municipal water only three times a
week, and sometimes, it comes “mixed with sewage” because the failing
infrastructure in the refugee camps is unable to properly treat it.

The acute electricity crisis also hinders the operation of water wells and
sewage treatment plants, leading to 80 percent of Gaza’s untreated sewage
to be discharged into the sea, while 20 percent seeps underground,
according to the statement.

Muhammed Shehada, chief communications at Euro-Med Monitor, said in his
speech to the Human Rights Council that about one-quarter of disease spread
in Gaza is caused by water pollution, and 12 percent of the deaths of young
children are linked to intestinal infections related to contaminated water.

According to World Health Organization (WHO), both salinity and nitrate
levels in Gaza’s groundwater have been “well above” the guidelines
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for
safe drinking water.

About 50 percent of Gaza’s children suffer from water-related infections,
the WHO said.

On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 10:23 AM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> I would not go so far as to cut Israelis off from medicine or clean water
> as they have done to Gaza, but a cultural boycott is potentially a way to
> bring the debate into a more public sphere. We need equally to confront
> what so many in the western press and politics  have done on this issue.
> They  have supported  the insane idea that anyone who publicly  criticizes
> Israel’s abuse of Palestinians is doing so out of  anti-semitism. They are
> labeled  anti-semitic even if they are Jews whose parents and relatives
> survived or died  in Nazi concentration camps.
>   Sally Rooney said she would be honored to have her book translated to
> Hebrew but will not work with a publisher who does not distance themselves
> from Israel’s aparteid treatment of Palestinians.
>
> > On Oct 11, 2021, at 3:44 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Why no comment?  This is a place for opinion.  As for me, I say Bravo!  I
> > think Israel deserves full apartheid treatment right now.  And too many
> > people are afraid to say so.   There!  I said it.
> >
> > David Morris
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 3:25 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> https://forward.com/opinion/476513/why-wont-sally-rooney-allow-her-latest-novel-to-be-translated-into-hebrew/
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> > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
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