From time to time, the Palestine Center distributes articles it believes will enhance understanding of the Palestinian political reality. The following article by Susan Abulhawa was published by Middle East Eye on August 9, 2016.
Scientific American recently ran a feature on Israel’s desalination industry, hailing it as a miraculous feat of ingenuity of a small nation in the midst of burning, backward nations.
To quote the article’s romanticised language, the author refers to Israel as ‘a galvanised civilisation that created water from nothingness’ where just a few miles away, alluding to Syria and Iraq specifically, but also Arab nations in general, ‘water disappeared and civilisations crumbled’.
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