Israel will fight to Survive and Water in Israel is Survival!
Jordan headwaters and Judean and Samarian Watersheds
Are the physical source of physical life of God’s chosen Apple,
Water in the Middle East has Always been an Element for War!
It is more valuable than gold for the preservation of physical Life!
After the last great battle of Armageddon is ended by Jesus’ Return,
Jerusalem will have more Physical and Spiritual water than it can Use!
February 5, 2010
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
EXTRACTED FROM 2009 BLOG ARCHIVES
Israel would fight to the Death for Water
From the Baniyas, Hatzbani and Wazzani
Jordan River Galilee Headwaters Sources!
August 4, 2009
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
If Israel returns the Ghajar village and Shabaa Farms it means losing control of the Baniyas, Hatzbani, and Wazzani headwaters that flow into the Sea of Galilee, which is the main source of water for the Jordan River. Water is more valuable in Israel than gold, because it is a constantly diminishing necessity for the continuation of both human and plant life.
If, and I said IF, Israel should agree to give back the Ghajar village and Shabaa Farms, and then afterwards Lebanon and/or Syria diverted or began to dam or use the waters excessively to lower the water levels on the Israeli side, Israel would push north to take back control of the area, which could be the cause of the king of the south (Israel) pushing north against the king of the north (Syria) in Daniel 11:40.
Daniel 11:40 – And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
The age of so-called civilized warfare really began in the era of the Napoleonic Wars of 1803 to 1815. And, with the passage of time, it has become increasingly important for the two countries involved in a conflict to convince the rest of the world the other is the culprit who started the conflict.
Every time Hitler, in his early conquests, marched his troops into countries to take them over in bloodless battles, he always had an excuse to justify his attacks. Finally, when he came to his planned conquest of the Poles, he could not really find what even remotely seemed like a justifiable reason. So he manufactured one. He had his own SS troops dress up in Polish uniforms and attack a German border outpost.
Then the SS put dead Polish bodies in the immediate vicinity of the outpost and had photographers and reporters in to verify their story. Using this farce as justification for his actions, he attacked Poland in September of 1939, and World War II began.
Some interesting developments, involving Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and the terrorist groups, particularly Hizbollah, have been occurring along the northern border of Israel with Lebanon. I do not believe what I am now observing in that area will lead to an immediate war, but I suspect it may well do so in the not too distant future. And, if I am correct in my premise, it could give Syria justification for attacking Israel in the eyes of most of the international world.
I am of the opinion the massive launching of Hizbullah rockets across into Israel is the most likely catalyst that starts the last war of this age, but water rights could play a large part in it.
Begin Excerpt from Jerusalem Post
Likud MK Kara: Evacuation of northern Ghajar would be a big mistake
August 2, 2009
MK Kara: Evacuation of northern Ghajar would be a big mistake
JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST
An evacuation of the northern part of the northern village of Ghajar and
transfer of control to UNIFIL forces would be a big mistake on Israel’s
part, Likud MK Ayoub Kara said Sunday.
Speaking to Israel Radio, Kara said such a move was in contravention of the
Golan Heights Law and would be the first step in surrendering the entire
territory.
Begin Excerpt from DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
Israel-Lebanese-UN teams secretly start marking out border
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
August 2, 2009, 10:17 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Blue Line border is transferred from map to terrain
In deep hush, joint teams of the Israeli Defense forces, the Lebanese army and the UN Interim Peace Force – UNIFIL – with the quiet approval of the Lebanese Shiite Hizballah – began marking out the Blue Line dividing the two countries at the end of last week, DEBKAfile reveals. Friday, July 31, as soon as Tehran picked up on the project, it called for Arab volunteers to rally “in defense of the Lebanese border.”
If completed, the agreed border will encompass three longstanding flashpoints: the divided Ghajar Village, the Shaaba Farms and the sources of Israel’s water supply.
This is the first time Hizballah has cooperated in any attempt to mark out on the ground the 78.8 kilometer-long international border along the Blue Line existing hitherto only on UN maps laid out by the UN Security Council in 2000, when Israel pulled back from South Lebanon.
Washington and Jerusalem take Hizballah’s assent as signifying that the pro-Iranian terror group has come around to supporting peace diplomacy – albeit through Damascus. But, according to DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources, Hizballah takes the fact that the Lebanese
and Israeli governments and the UN had to come asking for its permission as their de facto acceptance of its political and military domination of southern Lebanon.
The Israeli and Lebanese teams are working separately, each on its own side of the border, followed and coordinated by the UN peacemakers who hold the maps.
Israel expects the agreed marking out of the international border to once and for all refute Hizballah’s claims of its military encroachments into Lebanon which it uses to justify its own incursions and adherence to “armed resistance” against Israel. On July 17, a crowd of Hizballah activists disguised as villagers seized an abandoned Israel observation post near Kfarshouba and hoisted flags.
The Blue Line differs only slightly from the international Lebanese-Israeli border determined in 1923 but the tiny discrepancies have sparked heated conflict.
The work is therefore going forward slowly and painstakingly no more than a few meters each day.
Israel too may find itself having to forego parcels of land.
Both teams are working under heavy guard as they approach the most sensitive patches, the divided village of Ghajar, and the Shaaba Farms at the foot of Mt. Dov. The Blue Line runs down the middle of Ghajar leaving the northern half in Lebanon and the southern under Israel control.
But over the years, Israel has conferred citizens’ rights, passports and benefits to the residents, most Allawi Muslims, of both halves.
They are now petitioning the Israeli High Court to stop the border demarcation and prohibit the transfer of the northern half to Lebanon. Further back in history, they claim, their village was part of Syria. A legal opinion bearing out their claims has been submitted to Israel defense minister Ehud Barak.
Another complication not unrelated to the Ghajar case is that of the Shaaba Farms only three kilometers away. This tiny 22-square- kilometer enclave is hotly disputed among Lebanon, Syria and Israel.
It was captured by Israel after the Syrian invasion of 1967 and virtually annexed as part of the former Syrian Golan. Now it is claimed by both Damascus and Beirut, although each is prepared to hand it over to the other to get it out of Israeli hands.
The demarcation project can therefore expect to be stalled by Syria when it reaches the Shaaba Farms. At that point its case will start merging with Israel’s military and diplomatic considerations with regard to the future of the Golan.
Another key point to keep in mind is that for Israel to relinquish Ghajar village and the Shabaa Farms means losing control of the Baniyas, Hatzbani and Wazzani headwaters of the Sea of Galilee, its main source of water.
In an effort to keep the border demarcation under wraps, the Lebanese army last week declared a state of war alert on its border with Israel, which is still in effect, in the hope of letting sleeping dogs lie in Damascus and Tehran and avoid rousing Hizballah to change its mind.
But the Iranians were not fooled. Friday, July 31, Iranian foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki said apparently out of the blue: “I propose that the Arab states that did not take the necessary steps during the past aggression on Lebanon to make their volunteers fully available for Lebanon.”
This message was addressed to Hizballah and most of all Syria.
Begin February 2, 2010 Excerpt from YNet News
Water – conflict or peace?
BY DAVID NEWMAN
02/02/2010 03:45
Water scarcity in the region is also about geopolitics and economics.
There couldn’t have been a worse time for public-sector workers to be on strike. Those of us who follow the ups and downs of the Kinneret waited with eager anticipation to hear just how much the recent rains had affected our major water reservoir. Coming as it has after consecutive years of drought, the news that the Kinneret had risen by more than a meter in just over two weeks, with more to come, was indeed welcome. It looks like we will have enough water to drink, to fill our washing machines, to hose down our cars and, for the most wasteful among us, to “make the desert bloom” by watering lawns in regions which were never intended for lawns in the first place.
As the region’s population grows, so too does the demand for water. Even given a static population, the per capita consumption by an affluent, Westernized society grows annually. But add population growth, along with the impact of global warming, and the gap between demand and supply gets larger year by year. We therefore wait with bated breath each year for the rains to start, avidly following the daily increase in the level of the Kinneret. We follow the country’s water managers as they pump water up through the National Water Carrier to fill the main underground water reservoir in the center of the country, and from there distribute water to the metropolitan heartland.
The ideal situation would be for the Kinneret to reach its highest level as the last rains fall in late March/early April, and as the final flow from the melting snow on Mount Hermon makes its way into the lake. In rare circumstances, extremely heavy rains can cause the Kinneret to reach its upper level faster than
the water can be pumped into the national carrier, in which case the barrier gates at the south of the lake are opened, allowing water to flow into the Jordan River. But it would take a number of consecutive rain-filled years for the Kinneret to again reach its highest level.
IN ANY case, the scarcity of water in the region is not only about global warming and careful management – of which Israel is, without question, one of the leaders in the world. It is also about politics, geopolitics and economics, and the manner in which powerful lobbies determine the way we manage our scarce water supply.
Internally, the country’s agricultural lobby continues to receive preferential rates. This stems from the time when agriculture and the need for the country to supply all its own agricultural products was a national priority. Water was used for those types of products, such as cotton and the famous citrus fruits, which are high water consumers. Even today, when we have significantly reduced the use of water for these types of products, and when we accept that we live in a global economy in which we can import those fruits and vegetables which are not indigenous to the region, and even when the political godfathers of the agricultural lobby no longer have power, there are still preferential water rates for the country’s remaining farmers. This enables us to buy agricultural products at below market cost, and therefore has a social impact for those who would otherwise be unable to purchase healthy produce. At the same time, there is still a great deal of water wasted, and powerful political interests in the agricultural sector which need to be reexamined.
It is easy to be critical, but we should also be aware that Israel is probably the world’s leading consumer of recycled water. Local technology, water purification and the use of trickle irrigation – an Israeli invention – has meant that more than 70 percent of our recycled water is reused. The Water Research Institute at the Sde Boker Campus of Ben-Gurion University is probably one of the world’s leading institutes in this area, with its expertise being used in both developed and developing countries, especially in those which face similar problems of how best to maximize scarce water resources.
THE POLITICS of water is not only internal. There have been numerous incidents during the past 50 years in which water has been an added source of conflict (or peace) between Israel and its neighbors. Just two years prior to the Six Day War,
the air force bombed a dam being constructed by Syria to prevent the waters of the Yarmuk River from flowing into the Jordan, and
from there to the Kinneret. At the time, the message was sent that any attempt to tamper with the natural flow of water into Israel would be seen as a cassus belli.
During the 1980s, following the invasion of southern Lebanon, the rumor was disseminated that Israel would not relinquish control over the Litani River, and that it was constructing underground tunnels which would divertsome of its waters into the North – a rumor which proved false.
But it should be remembered that back in the early 20th century, when France and Britain were determining their respective mandate territories, the British wanted the border to be located further north, so as to include the Litani within their sphere of control. They were unsuccessful, hence the future Israel-Lebanon boundary was demarcated south of the Litani.
Almost 50% of the peace treaty with Jordan deals with water transfers (amounting to 50 million cubic meters a year) from Israel to Jordan, and the potential for joint research and development in this area. The recent initiative to establish a cross-border research center in Eilat-Aqaba has, as one of its main foci, the promotion of environmental and water projects. This requires a comprehensive analysis of the political and ecological implications of the proposed Red-Dead canal, which would provide an increased water supply plus hydroelectric power.
The agreement with Turkey to pipe water under the Mediterranean from the region’s only water-surplus country is as political as it is economically logical. At one time this was considered a cheaper alternative to water desalination plants. But although Israel has finally started to construct desalination facilities, the agreement with Turkey remains, at least on paper, for a variety of political and strategic reasons.
In Jewish tradition, water is compared to the Torah – each gives life and sustenance, one in the spiritual sense, the other in the physical sense. And in today’s Israel, each has become a political tool. Some political commentators argue that water offers as much, if not more, potential for future conflict than either oil or religious fundamentalism. This may sound a bit demagogic, but we should be aware that, given the constraints of global warming and growing populations, the political and geopolitical dimensions of the problem have to be harnessed in such a way that water can serve as the basis for regional cooperation rather than the spark for renewed conflict.
The writer is professor of political geography at Ben-Gurion University and editor of the International Journal of Geopolitics.
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