Instead, they exercise a great deal of care, caution, and responsibility in dealing with a valuable commodity such as water. They, and we, have been uprooted from a land with which we had not only the most intimate of ties, but the most responsible. They did not shower twice a day, they did not feel the need to treat themselves to irrelevant swimming pools, they did not think it was fitting or wise to have green lawns, and they did not pour water in desert areas to force crops out of it at the heaviest price imaginable. Israel, on the other hand, coming with big dreams of all sorts and with no intimate relation with or knowledge of the land, wasted much valuable resource in a very tragic way. Finally, the Israelis seem to be learning the lesson which our parents and grandparents had not only known very well but also acted accordingly very faithfully.
Humanity is interesting.
It takes some of its members ages to realise well-known facts and axioms. History is also interesting. It does distort facts and deal with many unjustly, but it also does ultimately reveal the truth. The Israelis have a lot to learn from our parents and grandparents about how to deal with water and with the land. Before that, of course, they have to learn how to make peace that gives others the barest minimum of their rights, and to live and let others live.