Environment
Recycling on rise in Arab towns
Yael Darel
Published: 05.05.11, 08:42
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1. this artickle based on poor facts
ghostq   (05.05.11)
I noticed that the list inclueds Druze villages, and jewish villages, confusing missleading and redundant.
2. still great news
jumbo ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (05.05.11)
Israel is finally waking up and joining the Western world. Now if we could start recycling glass, tin cans, and biodegradable waste, and stop the use of those horrible plastic bags...
3. Better than nothing, but still a late start
jbsfsax ,   Freiberg Germany   (05.06.11)
In Saxony, every household has its own recycling bins. One for plastics, One for paper, One for Bio-waste, and one for the rest which goes to the depony or will be burned. Recycling is a good hing, even as it comes with a price first, but people get used to it and much harm to the landscape and loss of ressources is avoided. Additionally, we collect recycling paper in elementary school and teach the children about the cycle of materials as well as water. Israel should have built water desalination plants long long ago instead of funding and hence overusing the water ressources from the mountains in Samaria. This would have done a great good to the Sea of Galilee as well as the Jordan River and the Dead See, which has become a dead darn, harming water ressources in its sorroundings.
4. Only thing they're recycling is false dream of pan-Arabism
Phil Jenkins ,   Austin, Texas   (05.06.11)
And we all know how many times that piece of toilet paper has been used.
5. Cheer up, Phil Jenkins
Mea   (05.09.11)
The ME is a positive place. Don't believe everything you are manipulated with. The fact is that in Israel, recycling is in a foothold pattern because people who pick after themselves are viewed as friers, schmucks. Each weekend and holiday Israelis pack into national parks and enjoy blissful times. Then, at the days end, they siple stand to an upright position, step back away from the mountain of picnic and BBQ garbage their clan has piled and turn and walk to their cars, leaving it all behind. Not a single collective call to bag it up, carry it out, contain it from gusts of wind, nope, none of that schmuck stuff for them! It is all left for the government to deal with. It is absolutely stunning to see. Who understands this mindset? Pick up and recycle your garbage, Israel, there is no excuse good enough!
6. To #5, I'm about as cheery as they get....
Phil Jenkins ,   Austin, Texas   (05.10.11)
....I just think it's silly to be working on modern, 21st century eco-related initiatives with people who still believe in sorcery and advent of Sharia law.
7. Phil
Mea   (05.12.11)
It amazes me how distant the view of the middle east and especially Israel, from places like southern Baptist Texas. For your information Phil, the people of Israel, both Arab and Jew are reading the same Book. Arabs do not believe in sorcery. Sharia law is not in place in Arab areas except in Gaza and that isn't universal even there. So in spite of desiring to paint all Arabs as heathens and all Jews as Pre-Christian angels, the reality you and other Christian yneter backtalkers need to absorb is that Israel is not yours, not Christian, not western. Israel is a country in the middle east with citizens very much more middle eastern in culture and manners than western, and this includes Jews and Arabs. It amazes me to observe people posting who have either never spent substantial time in Israel (a Christian tour of Christian sites doesn't count, sorry) will to develop aggressive stances about a place they have no real interest in. Sure your religion says you're going to do this that and the other, but grasp that no one actually living there agrees with you outside a tiny minority of people, most of them non-natives. Oh and btw Phil, most Arabs in Israel have no more to do with Sharia law than you do. I will not even go into the sorcery remarks, it's so backwards.....good luck Phil. Do yourself a favor and stay in Texas. This is a good idea because you might just get exposed to the truth about the level of sorcery going on in YOUR religious fundamentalist church Phil. What else would you call speaking in tongues, "listening" to the holy spirit, laying things on the heart, or under the blood of the lamb, etc. I know many Chrisitan who practice ESP sorcery and claim they have mindreading abilities, simply because they combined guessing an answer they wanted as they were praying and surprise, they were "blessed". Sounds like sorcery to me Phil...Look out Phil, there's a log in your eye.
8. How Many Months Will This Story Be On ynet?
Seth ,   Washington, DC   (05.15.11)
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