Israel’s use and abuse of environmentalism should serve as a warning writes Henry Luzzatto.
The Israeli campaign in Gaza has wrought devastation on an overwhelming scale, not just on the Palestinian people and infrastructure, but on the ecological future of Gaza and southern Israel as well.
In response to the environmental catastrophe, Israel’s Environmental Protection Ministry has announced its new ‘Green South’ initiative, which seeks to revive areas of southern Israel with green building, new recycling plants, and treatment of farmlands contaminated by the war.1
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