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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: steve kammerer who wrote (15445)	6/6/2007 1:57:29 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 22250

When Arafat was offerred the "greatest deal" for a state one of the things missing frm the offer was the aquifers. Israel would control them and meter out the water to these new free people in direct proportion to how good they were. 1.) Israel BUILT the water infrastructure that exists in the West Bank (and Gaza). In fact, they built the sewage and electrical infrastructure as well. I didn' see Arafat offering to provide compensation for those investments, none of which the Jordanians provided during the 30 years they occupied the West Bank. 2.) Withholding of water is a direct national threat to Israel. Any attempt to prevent Israel from having equal access to that aquifer would be an act of aggression. You don't give the enemy the rope with which they plan to hang you.. But water rights are transferrable and there's nothing that would prevent them, as well the remainder of the disputed West Bank territory being handed over to the new state of Palestine, upon finalization of a peace treaty. 3.) the Israels pump water from the Jordan River/Sea of Galilee into that aquifer, in order to use it as a massive repository and to limit the amount of evaporation from the open air lakes. Can the Palestinians be trusted not to nullify those efforts by over-pumping from the aquifer? Bottom line.. they can transfer land rights without transferring water rights. It happens all the time. The water rights can be negotiated at a future point and the Palestinians will have the propaganda edge over the Israelis. Water is just an essential problem for all of the countries in that region. Lebanon, Syria, Israel all share the water from the Jordan river (which originates in Syria) findarticles.com Sounds like you have the propaganda book open and all set to use. metimes.com arabianbusiness.com Propaganda goes both ways Steve. I'm just providing the facts as I see them. Hawk