For your perusal, my latest INTO THE FRAY column B’TSELEM AT THE UN – HAS ISRAEL BECOME SO “OPEN-MINDED” THAT ITS COLLECTIVE BRAINS HAVE FALLEN OUT? (Kindly consider “liking”, sharing, tweeting – please use hash-tag #IntoFray) B’tselem is not a human rights organization but a politically partisan group for which “human rights” are a pretext […]
The Israeli occupation changed local agriculture profoundly. It introduced modern technology, including mechanization, precision tillage, pest control, plastic covering of crops for temperature control, high yielding varieties, postharvest processing of produce, marketing and export outlets. It also introduced efficient methods of irrigation, including sprinkler and especially drip irrigation. Consequently, output increased greatly, and farming was […]