“Judging from the selfish, entitled way Israelis act on airplanes, on the roads, in restaurants, and while waiting for anything, we realized Israelis are positively the last group to respond to initiatives of this sort.”
Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu, June 11 – Israel’s Office of the Prime Minister and Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a video yesterday to introduce the people of Iran to methods the Jewish State has developed to reduce and combat water shortages, following a decision to focus such efforts on the citizens of the Islamic Republic instead of Israelis, who would never cooperate in that arena.
The social media blitz, focused on the Telegram service, attracted tens of thousands of subscribers within its first two days in operation, a figure that dwarfs the potential participation among the people of Israel, who, despite a culture of austerity in the state’s early years, have embraced a wasteful, consumer-driven economy and lifestyle at odds with notions of conservation.
“We knew people here wouldn’t respond to this campaign,” explained a spokesman for the Prime Minister’s Office. “Simply judging from the selfish, entitled way Israelis act on airplanes, on the roads, in restaurants, and while waiting for anything, we realized Israelis are positively the last group to respond to initiatives of this sort. So naturally we chose to focus on Iran, whose people aren’t being served by their government in terms of agriculture or the economy in general, so we can at least parlay this campaign into a diplomatic achievement.”
Israel has in recent years developed a reputation as a powerhouse in the arena of water conservation, including such technologies as drip irrigation, as the country faces a long-term drought and put its formidable brain power and expertise toward addressing the challenge. As the country has become more prosperous and advanced, more and more of the trappings of Israel’s early economic hardships have fallen away, among them an awareness of the scarcity of water.
“Indoor plumbing wasn’t standard way back when,” observed Yisraeli M’cho’ar, an anthropologist. “Especially when cities such as Jerusalem were reliant on trucks to distribute water, for example, and everyone was limited to a specific number of liters per day. But in the ensuing decades, as Israel grew and prospered, people gradually lost the sense of urgency around precious resources, and there’s little point in getting them to care. In Iran, by contrast, things have seldom been as prosperous, certainly not under the Ayatollahs, so they’re primed to treat this information with the seriousness it demands.”
The spokesman for the Prime Minister’s Office was about to offer a follow-up to his earlier comments, but was called away to stop his children from letting the bathroom sink run as they engaged in a massive waterfight outside.
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