Israel barred from using toxic spray

[Aussie_Hillbilly]

Israel's Supreme Court has issued a temporary injunction banning the government from using a crop spray deemed a health hazard to beduins by human rights groups, a petitioners' statement said.

Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and the Negev Coexistence forum were among the groups, non-governmental organisations and villagers who lodged the appeal on Monday against the use of "Roundup" herbicide.

Israeli authorities have frequently used crop-dusting planes to destroy the harvest of bedouin Arabs living in so-called "unrecognised" villages in Israel's southern Negev desert.

According to the statement, "on seven different days in the last years at least 30,000 dunams (7,500 acres) of wheat, barley, and some vegetables have been sprayed in 12 villages. The crops are a part of the food consumed by the villagers and their livestock in the 'unrecognized' villages."

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Under Israeli law, land not farmed for three years is forfeit to the state (well, to the exclusivist "Jewish National Fund" or "Israel Lands Administration"). The most effective way to stop it being farmed is to poison it, making way for more colonisation. Guess Ariel Sharon will have to find another way to disposess muslim Israelis now he can't just poison their crops.

[madrchsod]

1. your link does`nt

work..read about this at aljareezra today.

[Tinoire]

2. Try this

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/CF0291B2-C830-40F4-9938-677B103914B7.htm

[Tinoire]

3. Colombia. Oh the similarities!

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Thank God for groups like Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and the Negev Coexistence.

Wellstone was fighting to put a stop to this type of terrorism before he was killed. As a matter of fact, Wellstone was sprayed by Monsanto with Round-up when they were trying to show him how so carefully they sprayed that it couldn't possibly cause fetal deformations etc.

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