*A few updates as of summer, 2024:
Five years ago I wrote in the series linked below* that Israel had destroyed its environment to the point it was a dying patient on the gurney. With its Gaza Genocide , Israel is taking itself off life support.
1) Well over 100,000 Israelis running away from Hamas in the south, the Houthi in the Southeast, and Hezbollah in the North for the past year impact water and sewage infrastructure in communities they’ve retreated to. In addition Israeli agriculture, which was nominal to start with, saw an 80% drop in produce. What agriculture Israelis had along both the Gaza and Lebanon borders is out the window not only from abandonment and lack of laborers, but from the fields being crushed by 60 ton tanks running all over on the Israeli side.
1) To Israel’s South: The world’s attention is on Gaza, now a bombed out wasteland with 2 million starving souls, against whom Israel has cut off food, water, power, sanitation, and medical care. But stupid Israel has its own troops walking, eating, sleeping in the toxic debris of modern war; chemical weapons, white phosphorus, gas compounds that are banned by international agreement on the battlefield, DIME rounds, depleted uranium… ticking time bombs in Jewish bodies that will cause lifelong harm to Israeli troops and impact the Israeli health care system for as long as the regime lasts. All that stuff is leaching into the ground and coastal aquifer which will eventually spread back into Israel along with diseases, including polio, that have broken out in Gaza. Israeli troops infected while they’re killing Palestinians may bring polio, etc. back into Israel and spread it from there to other parts of the world. Again, untreated Gaza sewage is flowing north with the current along the shores of Israel.
2) To Israel’s Southeast: the indomitable Houthi, in support of Gaza, attacking with bottle rockets from shore and from skiffs with outboard motors, drove an American aircraft carrier battle group sent to protect Israel, out of the Red Sea (!) The Houthi blockade has cut off food and fuel deliveries to the Jewish state from that direction so effectively that Eliat, Israel’s only port on the Red Sea, has shut down and declared bankruptcy. This blockade reveals Israel’s utter dependence on food and fuel imports. At the same time, the blockade has been an environmental disaster from burning oil tankers by the Houthi, a burning oil refinery by Israel, and toxic missile exchanges by both sides.
3) To Israel’s North: Hezbollah has driven over 90,000 Israelis away from the border. As with the Gaza border, agriculture there has tanked. The Israelis estimate 56 square miles on the Israel occupied north (and three miles along the Gaza border) have burned this year from fires started by drones and rockets. There’s also toxic waste from missiles and drones. As noted elsewhere conflict in Palestine is changing the albedo of the region for the worse. That is, the land is getting darker and dark absorbs more heat from sun instead of reflecting it back to space. And presumably Israel’s 1,500 foot deep water wells and Dick Cheney’s oil drilling operations in the occupied Golan Heights are impacted.
4) To Israel’s West: America’s Zionist controlled government has deployed half the US Navy to the Mediterranean Sea to defend Israel. Anyone who has served on a Naval ship knows they are an environmental disaster all by themselves at any time but at the moment they have joined Israel in threatening the resistance, including Iran, with attacks using nuclear weapons. Russia and China are backing Iran and they have nuclear weapons, too.
5) Internationally: On July 28, 2024 President Erdogan of Turkey threatened to invade Israel over atrocities in Palestine. President Erdogan is written off by the Jewish state as a blow-hard at Israel’s peril. Oil tankers that supply Israel depart from Turkey. If Turkey joins BRICS in October 2024, and it may, the country just might turn off the spigot to Ashkelon.
August 19, 2024 President Petro of Columbia banned coal exports to Israel over the Gaza Genocide. Until this week, Columbia was Israel’s largest supplier of coal. Columbia is also committed to joining BRICS.
May 2024. Brazilian President Luiz da Silva recalled Brazil’s Ambassador to Israel while condemning the Gaza Genocide. Brazil, the ‘B’ in BRICS, is a major food supplier to Israel.
Russia, the ‘R’ in BRICS, also supplies food to Israel. That may change as Russia is backing resistance to Israel including supplying weapons to Iran.
Summer 2024 Iraqi resistance group are targeting US bases in Iraq that are protecting oil supplies that go through Turkey to Israel. Israeli media reported in 2015 that Israel was getting 3/4 of its oil from Iraq.
https://www.dickcallahan.net/category/israel-and-palestine/baseline-of-a-desecrated-land/
