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                                            The Truth Behind Israel’s
                                            Greenwashing Delegation </strong><br>
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                                          November 2022<br>
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                                        <div style="direction: ltr;
                                          text-align: justify;">Prior to
                                          the start of the UN Conference
                                          on Climate Change (COP27),
                                          which took place in Sharm El
                                          Sheikh, Egypt, between 6 and
                                          18 November, the Israeli
                                          Ministry of Foreign Affairs <a
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                                          the official delegation it
                                          will send to COP27, boasting
                                          that this is the State’s “most
                                          significant participation
                                          since international
                                          conferences on this topic
                                          began.” The Israeli <a
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                                          included the President of
                                          Israel, senior officials of
                                          various ministers, Zionist
                                          parastatal institutions like
                                          the Jewish National Fund,
                                          civil society, academics,
                                          senior officials of the
                                          private sector, and
                                          entrepreneurs. This year, <a
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                                          built its first national
                                          pavilion at COP, promoting 10
                                          climate tech companies and
                                          hosting more than 30 events.<br>
                                          <br>
                                          The delegation weaponised
                                          Israel’s long-used
                                          greenwashing strategy,
                                          boasting about the country’s
                                          “leading role” in climate tech
                                          and innovation toward climate
                                          change mitigation and
                                          adaptation, in areas such as
                                          renewable energy, gas, water
                                          desalination and reuse,
                                          afforestation, and alternative
                                          proteins.<br>
                                          <br>
                                          Such a narrative showcases
                                          Israel as
                                          ‘environmentally-friendly’, in
                                          order to normalize and deflect
                                          its climate apartheid and
                                          environmental destruction
                                          against the Palestinian
                                          people, their land and their
                                          natural resources. The
                                          greenwashing narrative also
                                          conceals how Israel’s
                                          settler-colonial and apartheid
                                          regime, and prolonged
                                          belligerent occupation
                                          actually reinforces
                                          Palestinians’ climate
                                          vulnerability.<br>
                                          <br>
                                          Israel’s greenwashing <a
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                                          has its foundation in the
                                          Zionist settler-colonial and
                                          racist logic that Zionists are
                                          “more advanced and civilised”
                                          to develop the land of
                                          Palestine than its indigenous
                                          Palestinian people, and that
                                          they came to Palestine to
                                          “make the desert bloom”. At an
                                          <a
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                                          titled, “Water reuse to
                                          address climate challenges” at
                                          the Israeli Pavilion at COP27,
                                          the Israeli Minister of
                                          Environmental Protection,
                                          utilised this narrative,
                                          boasting about Israel’s
                                          leading role in water
                                          desalination and reuse,
                                          underlying that “<em>we have
                                            established the state of
                                            Israel in the middle of the
                                            desert. We suffered from
                                            water scarcity since the
                                            beginning…. We came up with
                                            the solution.”</em><br>
                                          <br>
                                          <strong>What is Behind
                                            Israel’s Eco-Friendly
                                            Discourse and “Solutions”?</strong>
                                          <ol>
                                            <li
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exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Land
                                              and Natural Resources
                                              Appropriation</li>
                                          </ol>
                                          Israel’s greenwashing strategy
                                          puts a blind eye to its direct
                                          violation of Palestinians’
                                          ability to develop
                                          self-determined resilience
                                          strategies of mitigation and
                                          adaptation to the <a
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                                            crisis</a> under its system
                                          of settler-colonialism,
                                          apartheid and prolonged
                                          occupation. This is
                                          specifically due to Israel’s
                                          policies of fragmentation, the
                                          blockade of the Gaza Strip,
                                          the denial of the peoples’
                                          collective right to
                                          self-determination,
                                          development and the
                                          appropriation, exploitation
                                          and degradation of Palestinian
                                          land and natural resources.
                                          This has been <a
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                                          through the exploitation of
                                          land, water, natural gas and
                                          oil, quarrying, extracting
                                          dead sea minerals, as well as
                                          depleting Palestinians’
                                          non-renewable and finite
                                          resources.<br>
                                          Specifically vulnerable to
                                          increased climate hazards are
                                          Palestinian communities whose
                                          livelihood mostly relies on
                                          access to and exploitation of
                                          their land and natural wealth,
                                          such as farming, herding and
                                          Bedouin communities. Around
                                          two million Palestinians
                                          living under a 14-year-old
                                          illegal blockade and closure
                                          in the Gaza Strip are also
                                          exposed to increased risks to
                                          climate related hazards such
                                          as water scarcity, and food
                                          insecurity. Around <a
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                                            percent</a> of Gaza water is
                                          undrinkable, and over 60
                                          percent of Gaza households are
                                          <a
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                                            insecure</a>. Implementation
                                          of mitigation and adaptation
                                          strategies is <a
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                                          on the Palestinian people’s
                                          ability to access and develop
                                          their land and natural
                                          resources in a sovereign and
                                          free manner, which is part of
                                          their inalienable right to
                                          self-determination.
                                          <ol>
                                            <li
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                                              value="2">Climate
                                              Apartheid</li>
                                          </ol>
                                          In addition to Israel’s
                                          occupation and apartheid
                                          regime’s impacts on
                                          Palestinians’ climate
                                          vulnerability, there are many
                                          Israeli policies and
                                          activities which leave direct
                                          environmental injustice
                                          impacts over Palestinians,
                                          including:
                                          <ol>
                                            <li
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                                              value="NaN">Illegal
                                              settlements have many
                                              negative impacts on both
                                              the environment and the
                                              human rights of nearby
                                              Palestinian communities.
                                              In industrial and
                                              agricultural settlements,
                                              corporations including
                                              chemical factories and <a
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                                              operate without or with
                                              very low consideration to
                                              any environmental law,
                                              including the Israeli law,
                                              causing contamination of
                                              the surrounding air, soil
                                              and water.</li>
                                            <li
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                                              value="NaN">Many illegal
                                              Israeli settlements do not
                                              have proper waste
                                              treatment facilities, <a
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                                              a large amount of
                                              untreated sewage into
                                              Palestinian streams,
                                              valleys, and onto
                                              agricultural land. This
                                              implicates the <a
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                                              of the soil and changing
                                              its biological
                                              composition, implicating
                                              the death of trees and
                                              crops, as well as disease
                                              spread and extinction to
                                              Palestinian livestock and
                                              wildlife.</li>
                                            <li
                                              style="mso-line-height-rule:
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                                              value="NaN">Israel
                                              appropriates Palestinian
                                              land in the occupied
                                              Palestinian territory
                                              (OPT) as landfills for its
                                              waste. Israel, the
                                              Occupying Power illegally
                                              <a
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                                              waste, including <a
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                                              waste, into 15 Israeli
                                              waste facilities in the
                                              occupied West Bank.
                                              Moreover, illegal
                                              settlers’ solid waste,
                                              which is twice as more
                                              solid waste per capita
                                              than Palestinians, is
                                              mostly <a
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                                                moz-do-not-send="true">dumped</a>
                                              in landfills in the West
                                              Bank. This is combined
                                              with the inability of
                                              Palestinians to develop
                                              climate-resilient
                                              infrastructure, including
                                              waste infrastructure,
                                              because of Israel’s
                                              apartheid and occupation
                                              and the associated
                                              policies and activities.
                                              All these climate
                                              apartheid practices and
                                              policies contaminate the
                                              air and pose health risks
                                              to nearby <a
href="https://alhaq.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=10071401ba4201bc1a4992f68&id=f73d5d4ea6&e=08c14cf485"
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                                                moz-do-not-send="true">Palestinian</a>
                                              communities.</li>
                                            <li
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                                              value="NaN">The quarrying
                                              industry in the OPT, not
                                              only contributes to the
                                              violation of the
                                              Palestinian right to
                                              self-determination and to
                                              permanent sovereignty, it
                                              further benefits from the
                                              appropriation of
                                              Palestinian property, and
                                              the pillage of Palestinian
                                              natural resources.
                                              Further, it depletes
                                              non-renewable and finite
                                              resources of the protected
                                              population, which may
                                              amount to the war crime of
                                              destruction of natural
                                              resources and <a
href="https://alhaq.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=10071401ba4201bc1a4992f68&id=9fd32539fe&e=08c14cf485"
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                                                moz-do-not-send="true">environmental
                                                destruction</a>. The
                                              resulting clouds of dust
                                              and pollution from the
                                              quarries, which do not
                                              abide by any environmental
                                              law, cause damage to the
                                              nearby Palestinian
                                              residents’ rights to land,
                                              landscape and environment.</li>
                                            <li
                                              style="mso-line-height-rule:
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                                              value="NaN">Another form
                                              of environmental
                                              destruction is caused by
                                              Israel’s targeting of
                                              Palestinian civilian
                                              property and
                                              infrastructure as part of
                                              its widespread and
                                              systematic demolition
                                              policy in the West Bank
                                              and successive military
                                              offensives in the Gaza
                                              Stip. For example, during
                                              Israel’s May 2021 military
                                              offensive on the Gaza
                                              Strip, Israel targeted
                                              with live bullets and
                                              artillery shells the main
                                              <a
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                                                moz-do-not-send="true">waste
                                                dump</a> of Gaza city
                                              triggering a major health
                                              and environmental crisis.
                                              Another attack during the
                                              May 2021 military
                                              offensive, which caused
                                              catastrophic environmental
                                              damages included Israel’s
                                              targeted attack and
                                              destruction of the Khudair
                                              Warehouse. The <a
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                                                moz-do-not-send="true">Khudair
                                                Warehouse</a> housed
                                              over 50 percent of
                                              agricultural supplies
                                              within the Gaza Strip. The
                                              attack on the chemical
                                              warehouse, created a
                                              chemical cloud that spread
                                              chemical waste over the
                                              people and environment of
                                              Gaza, poisoning the
                                              population. As the Israeli
                                              attack targeted with
                                              knowledge a chemical
                                              warehouse with chemical
                                              contents, it may
                                              constitute an indirect
                                              chemical weapon, which is
                                              prohibited under
                                              international treaty and
                                              customary law.<a
                                                href="#_ftn1"
                                                name="_ftnref1" title=""
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                                          </ol>
                                          <strong>Conclusion:
                                            Decolonization, Social
                                            Justice, and Human Rights to
                                            Advance Climate Justice</strong><br>
                                          <br>
                                          While the COP serves as an
                                          avenue to address the global
                                          climate crisis, many States
                                          have often employed the COP to
                                          boast about their
                                          environmentally friendly
                                          initiatives, turning a blind
                                          eye to their own regimes of
                                          colonialism, occupation,
                                          aggression, apartheid, and
                                          authoritarianism and how they
                                          reinforce social injustices,
                                          racial discrimination, and the
                                          denial of the people the
                                          exercise of their right to
                                          self-determination.<br>
                                          <br>
                                          The struggle for climate
                                          justice cannot be separated
                                          from struggles to end all
                                          systems of alien domination,
                                          including colonialism,
                                          apartheid, and occupation. An
                                          <a
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                                            moz-do-not-send="true">intersectional</a>
                                          approach to climate
                                          change-related challenges,
                                          should be adopted, to include
                                          self-determination, human
                                          rights, and social justice.<br>
                                          <br>
                                          In Palestine, Israel’s settler
                                          colonial apartheid regime and
                                          military occupation continues
                                          to deny the Palestinian people
                                          their inalienable right to
                                          self-determination, including
                                          their right to full
                                          sovereignty over their natural
                                          resources. In effect, the
                                          Palestinian people have been
                                          prevented from confronting the
                                          adverse effects of <a
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                                            #007C89;font-weight:
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                                            underline;"
                                            moz-do-not-send="true">climate
                                            change</a>. Decolonizing
                                          Palestine, and ending the
                                          apartheid and occupation, as
                                          well as realizing the
                                          Palestinian peoples’ right to
                                          self-determination including
                                          their right to full
                                          sovereignty to their land and
                                          natural resources is the only
                                          sustainable solution for the
                                          Palestinian people to set and
                                          implement viable mitigation
                                          and adaptation strategies to
                                          climate change.
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                                              Rule 74, ICRC customary
                                              International Humanitarian
                                              Law Database; Hague
                                              Declaration concerning
                                              Asphyxiating Gases, 1899;
                                              Protocol for the
                                              Prohibition of the Use in
                                              War of Asphyxiating,
                                              Poisonous or other Gases,
                                              and of Bacteriological
                                              Methods of Warfare, 1925
                                              (Geneva Gas Protocol);
                                              Chemical Weapons
                                              Convention, Article I;
                                              Rome Statute of the
                                              International Criminal
                                              Court, Article
                                              8(2)(b)(xviii).</div>
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