Every time I open the faucet I think of the woman who can’t wash her hands, can’t cook, can’t drink.  The news here today is that they have plenty of water for a few weeks, and that my imagination has been influenced by the news channels abroad who are in turn influenced by Hamas propaganda. 

I don’t know who to believe, but I tend to go with the guys who are watching from here.  

And suddenly I wonder why they never used our knowledge about creating desalination plants.  It’s public, and there were certainly enough funds that were diverted into weapons.  We’re still being bombed all the time and we have to wonder to what use that money could have been made.

If you think about it, water is the main problem in Gaza. desertification; salination of fresh water; sewage treatment; water-borne diseases; soil degradation; and depletion and contamination of underground water resources.

But many of these people are descendents of refugees from Palestine in ’48, and have been taught for generations that their only happiness lies in my destruction.  Oh, how much easier it could have been, or could still be, if we could just talk to each other.  

and solve the water problem between us.