SYRIA WANTS ISRAELIS HEADWATER TRIBUTARY WATERS
WATER MAY BE THE THORN CAUSING A FINAL GREAT WAR
THREE PARAGRAPHS FROM EXCERPT DESCRIBE SITUATION
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“[Ground water in the country had reached such nadir that it is no longer possible to use the roughly 420,000 illegal wells dug by residents over the years.
If there is no water, there is no agriculture; people proceed to leave the village and move to the city. As there is no work there either, the distress is terrible and political pressures builds up.
Now, with the terrible drought, the grim results are overwhelming this land of 20 million people, half of them farmers. Instead of the 1.9 million tons of grains they expected to produce this year, the farmers managed to supply only 892,000 tons. Ruin in Syrian terms. The implication is that Syria is importing its grains today and has no money.
Syria has an existential interest in getting its hands on the Sea of Galilee in order to get the water needed for its agricultural land. Meanwhile, the water of our poor Kinneret reaches both Israel and Jordan at this time (we provide a fixed amount every year in line with our peace treaty.) Should Syria touch the Kinneret, the amounts of water pumped out
of it will be huge. As it ruined its own rivers and ground water, Syria will also ruin our main water source. It has its sights on it, even though it is uninterested in peace with Israel.]”
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August 10, 2009
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I have maintained that water might be the fly in the ointment which caused Daniel’s King of the South (Israel) to push north against the King of the North (Syria) ever since 1985. I indicated this in 2002 in Archive Prophecy Update Number 85A.
ARCHIVE SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 85A
September 14, 2002
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WOULD MAKE THE KING OF THE SOUTH PUSH AT THE KING OF THE NORTH AND FALL INTO A PRE-JIHAD TRAP!
Water in Israel is much more valuable than oil or gold. Water is in very short supply in all of Israel, and an every increasing demand ranks it at the top of national interest. It is more than worth going to war over, because without it Israel would cease to exist. It is a constant problem for Israel with Lebanon and Syria. The five upper headwater tributaries of the Jordan have their sources in the snows of the upper Golan Heights and in the Syrian and Lebanese ranges just across the northern border of Israel. Tampering with these water sources, at some point in time after Israel has been lulled into a false peace mode, could be used as a clever ploy to get Israel to push north into Syria and Lebanon, thinking they could take care of the problem. But upon so doing they might find several divisions of Syrian, Iraqi, and Lebanese troops poised and ready to counterattack, then to drive south into Israel.
I have spent time on the top of Mt. Herman and explored all five of the upper Jordan spring-fed tributaries.
Daniel 11:40,41 – 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. [41] He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.
Israeli officials have been closely observing water being pumped from the Wazzani River, which is a tributary of the Hatzbani River.
The Hatzbani flows into the the Sea of Galilee, which empties into the Jordan. The last time I was in Israel, just before the intifada, the Lebanese had already begun to pump water by a pipeline extending into the Wazzani. Shortly after I returned to the United States they installed a much larger pipe, and now they are installing one almost a foot and a half in diameter. One that large can pump a lot of water. Lebanon claims it is only pumping about five million cubic meters a year, and that it is entitled to fifty million cubic meters according to international water treaties. Israel claims that when the current project is completed by Lebanon, then some twenty-five percent of the Wazzani’s flow will be drained off by its northern neighbor each year.
After a form of “forced peace” has lulled Israel into a false sense of security, within a short period of time after this state of “a false peace” is in place, I am convinced that the Islamic nations will want Israel to appear to be the aggressor when they launch a surprise Jihah against it. The bait used may be a move to threaten Israel’s water supply, or a launching of rockets across the border by Hizbollah. Israel has repeatedly warned both Syria and Lebanon that either of these could lead to a cross-border strike by IDF forces to cleanup the problem.
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PM Warns Lebanon Over Wazzani Waters
David Rudge
September 12, 2002
Israel will not accept Lebanese plans to draw additional water from the Wazzani River, which ultimately flows into Lake Kinneret, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon warned Tuesday.
Israel Radio said the government had relayed its concern to Lebanon along with calls to stop the project.
According to reports in the Lebanese press, work on laying 16-inch diameter pipes to be used to convey water from the Wazzani, a tributary of the Hatzbani, to towns and villages in south Lebanon has been completed.
The next stage of the project is slated to involve the construction of an enlarged pumping station and a reservoir from where the water will be channelled into the pipeline.
The entire project, being carried out by the Council of the South which is affiliated with Amal and its leader, Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Beri, is expected to be completed by the end of the year.
So far the Lebanese government has rejected Israel’s warnings and international pressure to stop the project which Sharon was quoted as saying was in breach of previous water treaties, including unwritten accords.
There are no accurate assessments of how much the Lebanese pumping project would drain from the Hatzbani and ultimately the Kinneret, although some estimates have put the amount as high as 50 million cubic meters a year.
This is the equivalent of the quantity Israel intends to import from Turkey each year, as well as the total annual production capacity of a major seawater desalination unit.
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Syria is drying up
If given the opportunity, Syria will ruin our main water source
Guy Bechor YNET
August 3, 2009
Israel Opinion
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3755655,00.html
Syria is experiencing an economic holocaust.
There is no other way to describe what the Syrian regime is so much trying to hide. The country is drying up, and no less than 250,000 farmers were forced in the past three years to abandon their land and migrate to the large cities. They live in tents there, completely neglected by the regime. These figures appeared in a special study undertaken by the United Nations and published on the al-Arabiya website.
The immense Euphrates River, Syria’s main source of water, is drying up. The Turks are stopping its water in their territory,
so that Syria and Iraq
are receiving a declining portion of the water. Within about 10 years, the river is expected to dry up completely outside Turkish territory. Today already, it reaches Syria w
ith contaminated water and therefore its fish, an important source of livelihood, is ecoming extinct.
As result of the drought that had been plaguing Syria for several years now, another important Syrian water source, the Aasi (Orontes) River, is drying up as well. Its water is becoming saltier and increasingly contaminated, and its fish are dying off. And without fish, there is no livelihood. Entire villages fed by its waters for hundreds of years are simply being deserted.
Ground water in the country had reached such nadir that it is no longer possible to use the roughly 420,000 illegal wells dug by residents over the years.
If there is no water, there is no agriculture; people proceed to leave the village and move to the city. As there is no work there either, the distress is terrible and political pressures builds up.
Many of the farmers leaving their villages are Kurd, which makes the problem an ethnic one. The Kurdish refugees accuse the regime of doing nothing for them.
For several years now they have been living in thousands of tents near the big cities without being addressed.
Should Israel pay for Syrian failures?
It turns out that the ruling Baath party is at fault for everything.
During the 1960s, the p arty decided to turn Syri
a into a grain-exporting state. They viewed it as a victory of the Syrian agrarian revolution. For that reason, they forced the farmers to shift from herding, on semi-arid land, to growing grain. The regime turned a blind eye to the hundreds of thousands of wells that were dug in order to water the grain. Any economist who dared to speak out against this policy was jailed.
Now, with the terrible drought, the grim results are overwhelming this land of 20 million people, half of them farmers. Instead of the 1.9 million tons of grains they expected to produce this year, the farmers managed to supply only 892,000 tons. Ruin in Syrian terms. The implication is that Syria is importing its grains today and has no money.
Syria has an existential interest in getting its hands on the Sea of Galilee in order to get the water needed for its agricultural land. Meanwhile, the water of our poor Kinneret reaches both Israel and Jordan at this time (we provide a fixed amount every year in line with our peace treaty.) Should Syria touch the Kinneret, the amounts of water pumped out of it will be huge.
As it ruined its own rivers and ground water, Syria will also ruin our main water source. It has its sights on it, even though it is uninterested in peace with Israel.
Should Israel pay for the failures and mediocrity of the Syrian Baath party? Moreover, when one realizes how badly Turkey robs Syria, should we choose Turkey as the mediator between us and the Syrians? After all, Turkey has an existential interest in seeing the Syrians get the Kinneret. It will take the pressure off.
Ahead of the possible resumption of negotiations with Syria, we should know these figures and be cautious. We should hope that the Americans, who wish to advance talks on the Syrian track, will also be aware of this information.
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