oberliner
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Sun Jul-23-06 09:11 PM
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Four Year Old Articles About Water |
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Edited on Sun Jul-23-06 09:28 PM by oberliner
Has anybody noticed a proliferation of posts which cite an article from October of 2002 about a dispute between Israel and Lebanon about water as being the true reason for this conflict?
Israel attacked Lebanon to steal their water? Is that the theory?
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Old and In the Way
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Sun Jul-23-06 10:35 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2738019&mesg_id=2738019Why wouldn't it be a relative point of discussion? I know how the MSM is framing this as a simple retaliation against Hezbollah, but the water issues of 4 years ago haven't gotten any better. Why might that not be a factor in Israel's decision to attack and occupy an area that has key control on their water needs?
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Malikshah
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Sun Jul-23-06 10:38 PM
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2. Water will trump all other issues |
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Look where all the aquifers are in Israel, the Occupied Territories, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon.
Find out which way they flow.
Then we can look at per capita consumption in a lovely comparative way.
Yup-- Water will trump all-- religion, terrorism, who did what to whom, etc.
Go back to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Physiological are the basic needs that need to be met...
BTW-- the criminal abuse of water and the misappropriation of basic water rights are, IMHO, criminal acts.
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