Deeply moved to see a dear colleague - one of the brightest and most original historians of the Middle East I know - detained in a military jeep, his eyes covered, for the crime of delivering water to Palestinians in the south Hebron hills.
He writes: "Why did we try to deliver water? Because Palestinians in Area C suffer deep discrimination in access to water. They can get water in trucks, on certain days of the week, for very high prices, while the nearby settlements are connected to the Israeli water grid...
"Israel claims the Palestinians cannot be connected to water because they live in illegal houses. But nearby outpost of Avigail, illegal even according to Israel, receives constant supply of water in pipes...
"Two populations live between the river and the sea; one rules over the other, and prevents it from democratically determining its future; one systematically expropriates land for the other, to settle its own population; it dispossesses the ruled population...
"... by denying access to water, theft of resources, checkpoints, walls, fences, complicated bureaucratic mechanisms. Systemic, institutional, organised violence, defends this undemocratic order and crushes any resistance to it".
From a longer statement by Avner Wishnitzer, of combatants for peace @cfpeace facebook.com/cforpeace/post… 
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