Palestine Stinks

I remember noticing the stench last summer. But it was only in particular areas, mostly the villages that were so unlucky as to have an Israeli Jewish settlement hovering atop them on the mountain. The sewage from the settlement was and is always routed to the Palestinian villages below.

But this year it’s everywhere. Palestine reeks. Maybe it’s the shear number of settlements and that much of the West Bank suffers from their sewage, but I think the land is breaking under the burden of destruction. Olive trees are burned from the sewage that seeps into the soil and shrivel up. It burns to breath in some areas. In Tulkarem the Israeli factories release chemicals into the air that burn your throat and nose when you breathe. And the trash piles, these huge mountains of rubbish that the settlements deposit outside of Palestinian villages. They stink and they rot the earth below them. I just don’t understand. Even if the Israelis want all the land for themselves, how can that happen if they destroy the land. And I can tell you this: they are destroying the land with their waste and pollution. They are killing Palestine.