it escapes my awareness; how could anyone do such a thing to anyone, especially 'the most moral democracy' in the world other than the empire;

About 300,000 Palestinians live in Area C, the part of the Palestinian West Bank that is under full Israeli control, along with 400,000 Israeli settlers. Because these 300,000 Palestinians are not Jewish, Israel feels no obligation to provide them with water (or electricity, or roads, or schools) – in fact, Israel’s water ministry goes out of its way to bypass Palestinian villages when laying pipe. 

The incident in the viral video occurred in late July, just a few weeks after Israel’s national water company, Mekerot, had, without explanation, cut water quotas to the Palestinian cities of Bethlehem and Hebron. This is not a one-off, but a continuous experience for Palestinians as they deal with what can only be called “water apartheid.”.........more........