To: "'permaculture'" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Hope for Palestinians and Palestine
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 09:45:10 -0700
While I agree that Palestine needs all of the economic ideas they can get,
the real problem is Israel's refusal to agree to nationhood for Palestine.
As long as this is not solved I have little hope for peace between these two
countries. Israel is chipping away at what little Palestinian land they
have with new settlements of Israeli citizens on Palestinian land.
Scott
"To change something build a new model that makes the existing model
obsolete" Buckminster Fuller
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From: permaculture [mailto:permaculture-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf
Of Lawrence London
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2014 7:40 PM
To: permaculture
Subject: [permaculture] Hope for Palestinians and Palestine
[attn: Steve, Scott, Koreen, anyone else]
Here are a few tip-of-the-iceberg ideas that could lead to the
revitalization of Palestine. This starts with an economic plan to market
artisanal food products in the global marketplace:
olive oil, citrus, wines, goat and sheep cheeses, yoghurt, vegetables - all
grown organically. They trade any militancy and weapons for agricultural
tools and materials and in return receive millions of dollars in donations
of organic soil amendments, tools and power equipment, seeds and plants,
greenhouses, equipment to create water impoundments and pumps with
irrigation systems. This would involve a massive influx of international
support in the form of permaculture and agriculture professionals to be
followed with professional, skilled expertise in civic infrastructure,
sewer, waste treatment, roads and bridges, educational and medical and
public health resources and social services, welfare and distribution of
surplus: care for the people, care for the earth, return the surplus.