Israel hasbara (propaganda or 'explaining' the view of one side in a conflict) has a tradition since 2008 of extolling development, instead of military, aid with the exception of the OPT (West Bank, East Jerusalem, Golan Heights and Gaza strip). The first image below was a poster displayed on the District of Columbia National Mall in June 2008 for Israel's 60th independence day/Yom Ha'atzmaut (Nakba to Palestinians). The poster erased the blockade on Gaza which had been conducted for a year by June 2008 and stood as a contrast to Israeli development aid elsewhere.
The second image below shows that tasteofisrael.org was a domain bought by an Israeli government (Jewish Agency) contractor that was not renewed causing the site to be taken down except by the cached views of archive.org.
Technological advances in solar electricity and desalinization of sea water are publicized with inadequate offers of sharing the technology in past negotiations in 1991-3, 2000, 2007 or 2013-14. Even small offers of medical help to individuals in the Syrian civil war (2011-present) are separated from intergovernmental negotiations to turn a state of war between countries into a state of peace (normal relations).
As far back as 1986, before the first intifada but after the peace treaty with Egypt, Israeli hasbara (propaganda) was extolling how Israeli businesses helped native Americans (Navajo nation) use water for agriculture in a desert environment. The selective and disingenuous help of Israelis to improve desert agriculture by Navajo indigenous people, not Palestinian farmers in the West Bank, Gaza or Bedouins in the Negev desert, was repeated here in a combination of Christian and Jewish zionism to repeat the 'made the desert bloom' talking point. Drip irrigation technology, like solar power and desalinization of sea water, is another way that Israel's government (under multiple Knesset governing coalitions and prime ministers), fails miserably to show a willingness to negotiate a final status peace with Palestinians because the technology was not even offered. An Israeli offer to share technology for taking the salt out of sea water, drip irrigation or solar electricity would have been one of those 'confidence building measures' talked about in discussions of the 'peace process.'
At the same time Palestinian attempts to replace Israeli-controlled electric grid (which Palestinian and Bedouin villages are not recognized and consequently denied access to) with solar power are met by IDF demolitions.
The inadequacy of sharing solar electricity generation, drip irrigation technology and sea water desalinization technology has led to Palestinian rights supporters annually, on UN World Water Day March 22, organizing to end what they accurately call Israel using water as a weapon against Palestinians.
