They are 'poor' but they have funds to muder Jews and give generous rewards to their killers. Please...cut the BS. As far as Piss Now is concerned they are nothing more than paid shit disturbers. Move on shall we.

You might want to mention that it is the responsibility of the Palestinian authority to supply water to the population under the control. The money that they have received from aid agencies has gone straight to the pockets of corrupt officials

Is it a joke? Except the Jericho Oasis, this area is a moonlike desert fit for goats grazing. If the arab farmers throw the towel, it is because air conditioned office jobs are more attractive than toiling under the sun. Another sample of NGO harassment campaign against the jewish state.

As a society's standard of living increases, less people work in agriculture. Agriculture becomes more mechanized and people gain employment off the farm. This article only tells me that Palestinians are wealthier today than they were in 1994. The article also fails to place blame on the Palestinian Authority, whose responsibility it is to provide these agricultural extension services. Prior to 1994 this was Israel's responsibility, and it worked then. Don't blame Israel for the PA's incompetence and corruption.

Since "Palestinian" farmers are having such a hard time, it stands to reason that many of them would welcome fair payments to leave our land forever.

I recently took a drive through Judea and the Shomron and noticed along the way that there was a huge difference in the farming techniques between Jewish farms and Arab farms. Jewish farms were for the most part very lush. All of them had drip irrigation, many of them were covered in plastic and there was modern farming equipment all over. The Arab farms in contrast looked very bedraggled. Virtually no modern farming equipment was visible. There was a noticeable lack of drip irrigation and no covered fields. Some mules or donkeys were seen in the fields pulling equipment. The Palestinians should stop blaming Israel for their problems and accept responsibility for their own shortcomings. If their government isn't willing to spend more than 1% of its budget on farming, how do they expect to be able to compete with their neighbors? Palestinians have to learn how to take responsibility instead of blaming all of their failures on someone else, and the world should be more aware of that.

Good drinking water is expensive in dry Israel. Israeli farmers use cheap purified non-drinking water, drip irrigation, computers, new genetic improvemet methods etc.