Ordinary garbage sites are everwhere.
Properly managed there are no environmental issues.
Israel's sites ARE properly managed as described in the Haaretez piece.
All the "toxic" stuff is propaganda.
Don, Jim made the same quote on the 9th.
It is by Pheobe Greenwood



Greenwood is a clear example of what we at CiF Watch have termed in the past a 'journavist': someone promoting a political agenda by means of what the public assumes to be objective reporting.

Her increasingly frequent articles on the pages of the Guardian's Middle East section (cost-cutting in progress?) may initially appear to be little different from the often ideologically-motivated reports filed by Harriet Sherwood until one remembers that Greenwood's lightning apprenticeship for her new trade as 'Middle East Specialist' was learned not at a foreign editor's news desk, but at the knees of several of the more offensive anti-Israel charities at work in the region. That she claims to still work as a consultant with some of them indicates a continuing conflict of interests.

The fact that the Guardian is publishing supposedly serious reporting on the Middle East from a recently re-vamped former writer of celebrity gossip (with apparently no formal training in Middle East history, and whose 'expertise' on the subject was gained in a total of 22 months spent working on two far apart continents for a fairly notoriously biased charity) is hardly likely to cause regular CiF Watch readers to set aside their Christmas pudding or Hannuka donut in shock.

The 'miracle' of Phoebe Greenwood's meteoric transformation into a regular Guardian contributor with a self-described 'specialty' in the Middle East clearly has more to do with the fact that her 'progressive' one-sided approach dovetails very conveniently with the Guardian World View of the region rather than any boring, earthly factor such as knowledge, expertise or understanding.