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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (25386)	4/15/2002 5:50:51 PM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Nadine...I need to go plant some flowers now, but will get some sources for you tomorrow. I believe the history and sequence of events goes as follows: Israel started building canals that diverted water from the Jordan River. Syria complained, drawing on long-standing riparian rights agreed upon between the surrounding Arab countries. Israel continued, even bulldozing in the middle of the night. Syria called on Egypt for help and together they built an earthen dam that cut off the flow of water to Israel. Israel blew up the dam. The Soviet Union lied to Egypt, claiming that Israel was planning an attack....Egypt moved forces into the Sinai looking for a build-up of Israeli forces along the border. At this point, the West intervened and asked Israel not to strike pre-emptively. Israel complained about the Egyptian movement of forces and we responded by explaining that a sovereign nation had the right to move its forces anywhere it wanted within its own borders and that a pre-emptive strike would not be supported by the U.S. Israeli media whipped the populace into a frenzy, and Israel decided to strike. It was on the basis of this being a pre-emptive strike, i.e. Israel started the war, that the U.N. sanctioned Israel and demanded that Israel return the conquered territories.....I think it's the Fourth Geneva Convention that had established that the party who starts a conflict is barred from retaining any captured territories. The Golan Heights, which has still to be returned, is high ground and imp. militarily, but it is also the watershed for the Jordan River basin. I suspect that may be the main reason Israel is still hanging on to it.