It is very informative to google any of the following ...

"War and water in palestine"
"Water reserves Israel"
"Water and conflict Middle East"
"Controlling water in Palestine"

especially ...
"Iraq water and conflict in Palestine"

etc: etc: etc:

There is a semi hidde issue that regional powers understand and it relates to the ability of countries in the region of Palestine to survive (yes survive) based on current water reserves, inflow & future growth & needs.

Try this google search (the last from the list above) ...
[link|http://www.google.com.au/search?q=Iraq+water+and+conflict+in+Palestine&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&meta=|http://www.google.co...ogle+Search&meta=]


Doug Marker

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This link is 'mostly' reasonable in describing events in Palestine but in particular go down to the bit about Water - this is a big issue ...

[link|http://www.mideastweb.org/nutshell.htm|http://www.mideastweb.org/nutshell.htm]

The above link (from the bit on Water) goes to the below link ...

[link|http://www.mideastweb.org/water.htm|http://www.mideastweb.org/water.htm]


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#3 Here are some links that spell it out bluntly - next wars in ME water related

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Water Wars, the next major conflict in the Middle East, will be over water, due to increasing water shortage and the inability of International lawyers to come up with realistic definitions and rules to share water across borders; a lecture by Adel Darwish, Geneva conference on Environment and Quality of Life June 1994.

WATER WARS: [link|http://mideastnews.com/WaterWars.htm|http://mideastnews.com/WaterWars.htm]
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