We ain’t talking Jesus juice here.
Israel has been flooding the Palestinian market with carcinogenic juice and “suspicious” computers used by its Defense Ministry, the Palestinian Authority claimed Tuesday.
Such allegations, which were common under Yasser Arafat’s rule, have resurfaced in recent weeks in the Palestinian media.
PA officials have also accused Israel of dumping toxic chemical waste in some areas in the West Bank with the intention of causing severe damage to the health of Palestinians.
Last month, PA-controlled newspapers claimed that Israel was using wild pigs to destroy crops and agricultural farms in the West Bank. The papers claimed that settlers and IDF soldiers were seen setting loose many wild pigs near Palestinian villages as part of a campaign designed to destroy the Palestinian economy.
A senior official in the [Israeli] Prime Minister’s Office said that with these types of allegations, the PA was resorting “to the same types of lies Yasser Arafat used to spread.”
According to this official, the allegations represented a pandering to the radical elements on the Palestinian street and not much attention should be paid to them.
At the same time, he said that if the PA was being dragged along by the radical elements, then “the Palestinians are not on the way to a state, but rather to another intifada.”
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The latest charge was made by Dr. Youssef Abu Safiyeh, chairman of the PA’s Environment Authority, who told Palestinian legislators in Ramallah that the PA security forces had recently seized a number of shipments from Israel that included canned juice containing a carcinogenic substance.
“These drinks are specifically produced for Palestinian consumers in the Gaza Strip,” Abu Safiyeh said.
He also claimed that the Egyptian authorities last March intercepted two Israeli trucks carrying children’s toys that included carcinogenic and radioactive substances. The trucks were seized at the Rafah border crossing, he added.
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Over the past few years, PA officials have repeatedly claimed that Israel was distributing corrupt food in Palestinian cities. They were quoted in the Palestinian media as saying that the Israeli government was selling expired food products to Palestinians with the intention of spreading various diseases among them.
In 2001, the PA claimed that Israel was responsible for poisoned chocolates and explosive toys, pens and radios that appeared in markets in the Gaza Strip.
Doctors at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City said then that they had treated several children who were allegedly poisoned after touching candy bars.
I would venture that the only verifiable poisoning being practiced on Palestinian children is the poisoning of their young minds by Palestinian society.
Second verse, same as the first.