As Targets . A target is a social decisionmaker's objective, aim, or goal. The target is what the conflict is all 'about' in the eyes of the protagonists. Differences and incompatibilities between the involved parties targets are what create the object of contention. As Channels .
Channels are lines of political, social, economic, or national cleavage among groups.
To cite a channel is to explain the structures that cause individuals to fall into the groups they do. As Catalysts . The following exposition will recapitulate and order some of the main arguments developed during the course of the study by assessing the role of water in each of these four causal dimensions. The roots of the conflict are to be seen in the opposition of Arab and Jewish national movements claiming the same piece of land. The struggle was triggered by the endeavor of Zionism to build a Jewish state on the land of their historical ancestors, and by the rejection of it by the indigenous Palestinian population and the neighboring Arab states.