The Los Angeles-based liberal Annenberg Foundation, which through its organization FactCheck org., led to the United States Supreme Court conclusion that the Certificate of Life Birth (COLB) posted on Barack Obama’s website is the Real McCoy, is now accusing Israel of depriving Palestinians of their daily water.
According to the United States Supreme Court in December, 2008, “FactCheck.org staffers have now seen, touched, examined and photographed the original birth certificate. We conclude that it meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship...Obama was born in the U.S. A. just as he has always said.”
To refresh reader memory about the liberal Annenberg Foundation’s place in recent history: It is the foundation that groomed a young Obama through his ACORN community rabble-rousing days in Chicago, and funded his failed education venture, the Annenberg Challenge, with Obama partner William Ayers.” (
J.B. Williams, Dec. 8, 2008).
Now through the breathtaking photography of National Geographic, The Annenberg Space for Photography, in an exhibit examining the “precarious state of the world’s fresh water” showcases Israel as the prime bad guy in the Mid-East `Water War’.
The Annenberg Foundation presents the same bleak picture for a thirsting humanity as does the anti-American UN Poster Boy Maurice Strong, who has long predicted that water will be a life-taking Battle Royale as soon as 2031. By that time, water will have to be rationed out by armed guards, according to Strong.
In the Annenberg Foundation’s estimation, as described in Water: Our Thirsty World, “a third of the people on Earth may lack a clean, secure source of water by 2050.”
As Canada Free Press (CFP) columnist Ari Bussel
points out, “This week the largest desalination plant opened in Israel transforming sea water to drinking water that tastes good.”
“Israel has long been the leader in water technologies, from drip irrigation to gray water usage in agriculture.”
In the Annenberg sponsored Water: Our Thirsty World, National Geographic portrays Israel as the greedy, hostile keeper of the Mid-East Water Well, thirsting out the Palestinians.
“According to a 2009 World Bank Report, Israelis use four times as much water per capita as Palestinians, much of it for agriculture.
“Israel disputes this, arguing that its citizens use only twice as much water and are better at conserving it. In any case, Israel’s West Bank settlements get enough water to fill their swimming pools, water their lawns and irrigate miles of fields and greenhouses.
“In contrast, West Bank Palestinians, under Israeli military rule, have been largely prevented from digging deep wells of their own, limiting their water access to shallow wells, natural springs, and rainfall that evaporates quickly in the dry desert air.”
The description of the water for Israelis versus water for Palestinians comes from Gidon Bromberg, the Israeli co-director of Friends of the Middle East.
We may ponder the proverbial question, “With friends like that, who needs enemies?”
“When the sources run dry in the summer Bromberg said, Auja’s Palestinians have no choice but to purchase water from Israel for about a dollar a cubic yard--
in effect buying back the water that’s been taken out from under them by Mekorot’s pumps, which also lower the water table and affect Palestinian springs and wells.” (Italics CFP’s).
In 1996, the World Water Council, a private think-tank, was formed. The founding members were Egypt’s Ministry of Public Works and Water Resources; the Maurice Strong-founded Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), and the French transnational water corporation, Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux.
At a 1998 meeting held in Washington, D.C., the World Water Council appointed a group of commissioners to turn the United Nations-controlled World Water Vision into a reality. The membership of the World Water Commission reads like a Who’s Who of the ruling elite, and includes among its high profile commissioners, Maurice Strong.
By 2003 experts were predicting that a water crisis was coming in statements claiming that by the year 2025 the world would be suffering the dramatic effects of--hydrological poverty. They share the Maurice Strong view that there will be great disputes, and even wars, over water access.
They even came up with a name for the timeline for the water crisis, calling it “zero hour”.
“Already 26 countries have more people than their water supplies can adequately support. Tensions are mounting over scarce water supplies in the Middle East, and could ignite during this decade. Competition for water is intensifying between city dwellers and farmers around Beijing, New Delhi, Phoenix, and other water-short areas.” (Nexus Magazine).
Meanwhile, Zero Hour is almost upon us, and who to more conveniently blame than the Israelis?
