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To: TimF who wrote (196034)	8/8/2006 10:15:18 AM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

BTW Tim, in googling for a reply to Mike, I found this interesting tidbit: Tensions mounted in 1964, when, after Israel had nearly completed a massive irrigation project that involved diverting water from the Jordan River into the Negev Desert, Syria began a similar project near the river's headwaters that would have virtually dried the river bed at the Israeli location. Israel launched air and artillery attacks at the Syrian site, and Syria abandoned the project. Guerrilla incursions from Syria and Jordan steadily mounted, as did the intensity of Israeli reprisal raids. So one of the major steps in the leadup to the 6-day war was a squabble over natural resources.