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I donât think Iâve seen any posts that went over what the water system in Palestine was like for each house, so Iâll try to go over it as best I can without any pictures -
Israel controls all of our water resources, and has allocated the resources of the Jordan river in an 83%/17% split, meaning that Israelis get 83% of its water while Palestinians are only allowed the remaining 17%.
Israel also routinely shuts of Palestinian water in order to supply Israeli settlements, which feature lavish swimming pools and well-kept community gardens - something we as Palestinians cannot have due to our limited water allowance and uncertainty regarding water availability.
What this leads to is a situation in which farmers cannot expand their crops or grow their gardens, because to do so would require time, money, and most of all, water. Because water is only allocated to us in an infrequent basis, how is a farmer to know that he has the water security required in order to expand his crops without worrying about having his water shut off for two weeks as all his crops die?
Each house in Palestine generally contains either a beir [well], large plastic containers, or both, meant to hold water. These are automatically filled when Israel turns on our water, with the house itself using the Israeli water before tapping into the beir or the other water reserves.
Motors in the house pump the water into the wells when Israel turns the water on, and then another motor pumps the water of the well into the house.
What makes things even worse is that if thereâs no electricity and your well is empty, then itâs not going to fill with water, and if the well is full and thereâs no Israeli water or electricity, then the water is not going to make it from the well to your house.
Aside from cutting off our water and only supplying it to us on set days, Israel also frequently cuts out electricity, especially on the hottest days of the year when Israeli settlers are blasting their ACs and creating a huge spike in electricity demand.Â
This is just one small aspect of life under Israeli occupation that I feel many donât actually realize or consider.Â
When we say that Israel controls every aspect of our lives, we mean it in the absolute most literal sense. We canât shower unless they turn on our water, we canât plant our crops unless they turn on our water, we canât visit neighboring cities unless the soldiers at the checkpoint are feeling generous, we canât pray at our holy sites in Jerusalem without special permits that they rarely hand out, We canât build up our own infrastructure without them tearing it down and claiming itâs a âsecurity concernâ. We canât build on our OWN land without getting approval from them first. We canât use mobile data services because they continue to deny us the equipment and mobile spectrum required for it, so while Israelis and Israeli settlers enjoy all the 4G they want on their phones, Palestinians are still stuck with having text and the OCCASIONAL âEdgeâ signal on ours.Â
And the list goes on, and on, and on.
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Minimum wage: $7.25
$7.25 x 40 hour full time work week: $290
$290 x 4 weeks per month: $1,160
In every Southern state (didnât have time to look at the rest of the country) you can find some sort of studio apartment for around $500 per month, sometimes less than that. Why bother lying about something so easily disproven?Â
Because Bernie Sanders supporters arenât going to fact check him, and theyâll ignore any contrary evidence thatâs presented to them anyways.
Things like this really tick me off and Itâs not political or anything but itâs the fact that you think all that money is there. Hereâs what I mean;
That weekly check comes to, according to you, 290. Most places DO NOT pay for your half hour lunch that is required by law. So your beginning number was wrong. $7.25 x 7.5 hours a day x 5 days a week only gets you $271.88. Â Most people in America get paid bi-weekly, so letâs double it to get the budget. $543.75. Thatâs GROSS, not NET. Out of that comes anywhere between 10% and 15% taxes depending on state so weâll low ball it at 10%. Automatically down to $489.38 a pay check. Now health insurance. Usually anywhere from 70-100 a pay check for the cheapest plans. Again, weâll low ball and go $70. So now we have $419.39 a paycheck. x 2 Â = $839.Â
Eight hundred thirty nine dollars. A MONTH.
But again, you seem to think thatâs fair. So letâs proceed. You say rent is $500? Okay. This person now has $339 left to buy groceries for the whole month, pay utilities, car payment, car insurance, and gas money to get to work.Â
Those are the bare needs. You have to eat. You have to pay for heat, water, garbage removal, gas and or electricity because apartments do not always include things and rarely all of the above. Most cities in America do not have public transportation. Mine doesnât despite the fact that our population is over 15,000 people, not counting a taxi. If you have a car, you have to pay that. If you have a car, legally you have to have car insurance. You have to pay that. You have to have gas in that car to get to work to make that money.
Now if you can tell me you can get all of that out of $339 youâre lying.
You are so focused on rent that you arenât thinking about everything else people have to pay for. Rent was an example. This is a breakdown of the budget you gave me and itâs not possible to live off that in 2017 America.Â
And BECAUSE this person makes over $800 a month, they probably wonât qualify for financial aid or food stamps. $800 is the line in my state where they wonât help you. No food stamps, financial aid, or government housing if you make more than $800 a month.Â
Why does it bother you that people deserve to live above the poverty line?
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photog by weerapong chaipuck on li river, near xingping in guangxi province. for thousands of years, fishermen have used domesticated cormorants  to fish the rivers and lakes of china.
they spend years training the seabirds to catch large fish which they return to the boat in exchange for smaller fish. itâs believed that cormorants can keep an approximate tally of the fish they catch and if they arenât sufficiently rewarded for their efforts, they stop diving after fish for the fishermen.
thanks to large scale industrial fishing, the practice, however, has now all but died out, with only a handful left to keep the tradition alive.Â
(as an aside of interest to probably no one else but me, some scholars speculate that the lack of mention by marco polo of cormorant fishing in his famous travelogue is proof that he never did actually venture to china. others - and again, this is probably of interest to no one but me - counter that itâs not that surprising an omission.) Â
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