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Via Jpost
Bennett demands apology from European Parliament President for citing inaccurate Palestinian claims that Israelis get 4.12 times more water than they do, sparking outrage, walkout by Bayit Yehudi MKs.
Europeans jump to criticize Israel without checking facts, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Wednesday, after European Parliament President Martin Schulz cited inaccurate reports of Palestinians using a fourth of the water Israel uses per capita during his address to the Knesset.
Earlier, the Bayit Yehudi walked out of Schulz’s speech, with MKs Orit Struck and Motti Yogev yelling “Palestinians are liars” and “shame.” Soon after, Economy Minister Naftali Bennett called for Schulz to apologize for lying.
The prime minister said Schulz “suffers from the same selective listening as many Europeans” in repeating a Palestinian claim that they use 17 liters of water for every 70 Israel uses per capita, adding that “even the Palestinian Water Authority says the discrepancy is much smaller.” “Schulz admitted that he didn’t check if what he said is true, but he still blamed us. People accept any attack on Israel without checking it. They plug their ears,” Netanyahu said in the plenum.
“Water isn’t a good topic for attacking Israel,” he added. “[When Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper spoke in the Knesset,] MK Ahmed Tibi (UAL-Ta’al) was very concerned about MK Taleb Abu-Arar (UAL-Ta’al) and said he doesn’t have water and electricity, but then we saw his house has water and electricity and a satellite dish.”