Comments on: 85 % of Gaza’s Inhabitants Driven From Their Homes, Israel’s Op covers most of Gaza

By: Gary Wilson

Gary Wilson — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 23:04:03 +0000

Hi Mark:
Even with no vegetation on it water dies not wash away fertile soil. When you see soil erosion, it is a symptom of low soil fertility.
Soil that is very acidic is regarded as a soil problem. The excess acidity is actually a symptom of soil deficiencies. Applying calcium carbonate to the soil loads the soil with the positive cation calcium while removing the acidity. It is usually the main deficiency in acid soil. Magnesium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate can also be used. They will load the soil with magnesium or sodium respectively while removing the acidity. In the case of sodium bicarbonate you have loaded the soil with sodium and you won’t be able to grow a weed as the soil has been salted.
The dust bowl was blamed on soil acidity. The response was to apply limestone (calcium carbonate) to the soil in order to remove the acidity and it seemed to work. They should have done a test with sodium bicarbonate as it would have also removed the soil acidity but made the dust bowl worse.
Although they solved the dust bowl problem, that actually did the right thing for the wrong reason. That’s agricultural science for you.

By: Mark Finnegan

Mark Finnegan — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 18:05:04 +0000

In reply to Gary Wilson.

Gary,
There were no large scale industrial poisons. Usually it meant uprooting Olive trees, tearing down vineyards and clearing forests to allow erosion to wash away any fertile topsoil. Fresh water wells were polluted by throwing in rotting carcasses. Also at Carthage in Tunisia and Corinth in Greece they tried to sow rock salt into the best of the farmland but that cannot have been viable in a broad sense but the intent was there. This, all in an effort to prevent re-settlement.
This is the agenda with “modernized” weapons in Gaza.

By: Gary Wilson

Gary Wilson — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 13:40:54 +0000

In reply to Mark Finnegan. Hi Mark: What is the poison used?

By: penny2

penny2 — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 22:41:22 +0000

In reply to Mark Finnegan. Thanks to Gary for asking and Mark for explaining because I wondered what it meant as well!

By: Mark Finnegan

Mark Finnegan — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 01:58:57 +0000

In reply to Gary Wilson.

Gary,
It is an expression found in ancient Roman texts which refers to eradicating your opponent’s crops and poisoning the soil so nothing will grow there.
Tacitus also described Roman policy as :
“They created a desert and called it peace.”

By: Gary Wilson

Gary Wilson — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 23:42:24 +0000

In reply to Mark Finnegan. Hi Mark: What does "salting the earth" mean?

By: penny2

penny2 — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 23:01:13 +0000

In reply to Mark Finnegan.

It’s madness, all of it. The cruelty.
No wonder I feel such an oddball?
sigh..

By: penny2

penny2 — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 22:58:30 +0000

In reply to Corinne.

Hi Corrine!
They (Israelis) may believe God gave them that land.
They may want others to believe that is the case as well (not necessarily yourself)
I’m not one of those people.
I saw this saying the other day, like a meme
You can’t think yourself superior to anyone else because that’s racist, sexist, or whatever but, if you don’t believe Jews are chosen than your antisemitic.
That’s a double standard.

By: Mark Finnegan

Mark Finnegan — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 20:16:46 +0000

Penny,
I’m not sure Israel allowed the Oct 7th attack to happen per se. I am a great believer in military incompetence. The conscript ‘Reserve” IDF has demonstrated itself to be irrational and unprofessional in the last couple of decades enough to show that the rot goes to the heart of the organization. Their pilots are well trained in bombing defenseless civilian targets but the ground forces are poorly trained for close combat and they lack the “Crusader” mentality necessary for full adherence to the agenda of Zionist ethnic cleansing and the militarist state.
But I do wholeheartedly agree with your words, “…what is occurring now in Gaza, is what Israel wanted. And they created the conditions for it to happen.”
The long term apartheid policies of Israel made this outcome inevitable and the genocide we are participating in is something radical Israelis have hoped for; not as a “mowing of the grass”, but a tearing up the roots and forever contaminating the soil.
Like the Romans who got their revenge but demolishing Carthage and enslaving and displacing the people then “salting the earth.”

By: Corinne

Corinne — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 19:39:38 +0000

Penny said: … “what is occurring now in Gaza, is what Israel wanted. And they created the conditions for it to happen.”

Heck, it’s what “God” wanted to happen! “God” gave them that land. They are God’s chosen out of all of humanity. So they’re not required to obey the “thou shalt not kill” commandment.
https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Exodus%2020:13

Nor is there any commandment to have prevented gross settler violence (even against small children) as early as 2021 to frighten Palestinian families into vacating their homes.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/28/israel-palestine-west-bank-settler-violence-tension

“God” gave the land to the Jewish people, so Israel is really not doing anything wrong.

But it sure makes God look like Satan.