Palestine - An Israeli Dumping Ground For Radioactive/Toxic Waste

Vatic Note: The  first thought that came to mind when I saw this was absolute horror for the people subjected to these living conditions, and then I thought, "Oh, my Gawd, that will be us if we end up under their absolute rule as they have planned with their globalizing".   

That is when I realized that we can never let this happen here or anywhere, but we can control here as others can control their own places they live.  Please read this and you decide.   I am too horrified at this to even write much more until I have finished digesting what I have just read and seen.   I am beginning to see that we have no experience in which to place these kinds of inhumane actions against other humans.  Thus its almost impossible to gauge a reaction, since it does not fit in with anything resembling what we know about and have experienced or seen.

So we are coming into a period or rational thinking that must take place.  Such basic questions must be asked such as "Do you judge based on what someone "says" or what someone "does"?  That is so fundamental, that it has to be the underlying assumption in all that we see and determine to be real.   I have firmly come down on the side of "Actions" and nothing anyone can 'say' will make those actions disappear since they are already done.   

The next question is "What part does my country play in these actions by its condoning, giving billions in foreign aid to the perpetrator of these crimes against humanity, and lack of outrage, and therefore, what part do I play if I do or say nothing?"   Its a true moral imperative..... You decide as we each will have to do ultimately. 

Palestine - An Israeli Dumping Ground For Radioactive/Toxic Waste
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by a Brit at Godlikeproductions forum
Source:   Peter Eyre | Palestine Telegraph  (This site has been suspended, so its not possible to get the full text).

We have seen the decades of suffering by the Palestinian people at the hands of the apartheid government of Israel and yet little has been said about another unseen problem that lies buried beneath the ground.

Over a long period of time the Israeli Government has secretly been dumping highly radioactive waste from their Dimona Nuclear Facility on Palestinian land. What is ironic is the basis as to why they have dumped their waste at such locations.  (VN: Another question:  "Is this attempted Genocide?"  If so, its a Nuremberg Crime against Humanity, just saying....)

Many years ago I started up an environmental action group to safeguard the region I was living in at the time. This would cover all aspects of potential pollution from Gas Turbine Power Stations – Agricultural Pesticides – Air and Water Quality etc.

Part of my responsibility was to cover the technical aspects of environmental care, especially in the area of airborne pollution and the quality of our drinking water.

I spent a lot of my time carrying out studies of Sub Terrain Hydrology, especially the knowledge acquired by Russian Hydrologists, who are rated as some of the best in the world. I obtained large water table maps showing the underground contours and realized that many toxic waste dumps were not only very badly planned but were allowing the toxic plumes to flow towards areas of dense populations.

The study entailed monitoring the progress of the toxic plume from a conventional rubbish dump and also more importantly the progress of highly toxic plumes from industrial/chemical waste dumping grounds.

With all of the above in mind I thought I would look at the situation in Gaza and West Bank to see if the Israeli Government had intentionally dumped there waste in Palestine’s back yard instead of their own. My findings not only shocked me but also allowed me to look into the mindset of some of these evil Israeli planners.

One can see that from their perspective it is better to contaminate Palestinian land and its people than their own Israeli population. However, sometimes they have to make a decision to do the Rubbish_Gazasame on their own land. It is always the case that when they are faced with this prospect the contamination will always take place in areas where poorer people live i.e. you will never find a radioactive or toxic waste dump in the more influential districts of any city.
So what is the problem and where have these dumps been created…..the findings will truly shock you. First of all we have to understand that in the environmental sense the government’s policy of dilute and disperse is terribly flawed and is no longer acceptable as far as environmental care and public health is concerned. No level of radiation is safe and no level of toxicity is safe, so why would anyone intentionally place such dumps close to areas of population. One needs to approach the Israeli Government for the answer to this question.

Over a period of time highly radioactive waste from the Dimona Nuclear Facility has been dumped primarily at two locations. One being close to Hebron and the other in central Gaza. When one adds to this the dumping of human waste, domestic waste, industrial waste and hazardous waste we are looking at a very lethal cocktail of underground contamination. One can also add to this hospital waste which can be extremely dangerous to humans

It is a known fact that as far as the Israeli and Palestinian populations are concerned they are totally dependent on the water aquifers that exist below the surface. Obviously with the coastal weather patterns in the East Mediterranean it is the high ground that produces the main rainfall. Moist warm air comes in from the sea and as it hits the high country it rises and causes rain. This makes such water catchment areas the lifeline for both the Israelis and the Palestinians.

One does not have to be into rocket science to understand that if you dump in or around this valuable source of water then you will pick up this toxic plume in your water supply. Likewise most dwellers would rely on submersible water pumps or wells for obtaining water or for pumping onto their agricultural crops. It is then that one starts to uptake the toxic plume that fans out from such dumping grounds.

What is rather sad is the fact that despite the sometimes acute water shortages the upper crust of Israeli society still use up vast amounts of water to quench the thirst of their lawns or to top up their swimming pools etc. This has a severe detrimental effect on the poorer dwellers as it tends to lower the water table making drinking water sometime impossible to acquire and can permanently dry up vast tracts of land.

Again I put an emphasis on the fact that if you pump from an underground source you will be uplifting highly radioactive or toxic waste. Historically the problems were well publicized (1998) and obviously with the increased population of Jewish settlers on Palestinian land the situation must now be extremely critical. Some of the main locations given at the time were as follows:

Approximately 4.3 million cubic meters of wastewater are generated per year from Jewish settlements in the West Bank. A large amount is dumped, untreated, on Palestinian land, creating a health hazard for many communities

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