Newsgroup: it.politica
Titolo: E se tutto l'ambaradan fosse per... l'acqua?

Libano ed Israele litigano per l'acqua da un pezzo.
Il che vuol dire che forse il conflitto va valutato in altra maniera.
http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2006/08/hezbollah-not-to-blame-for-war-bush.html
Inoltre, linko dalla cache di google:
SEPTEMBER 20, 2002 	| current issue | back issues | subscribe |
    America Trying To Keep the Lid On Israel-Lebanon Water Clash
    The Situation
    By CHEMI SHALEV
    JERUSALEM — The United States is trying urgently to quell the
escalating dispute between Israel and Lebanon over water rights, fearing
a wider conflagration that could hamper American plans to attack Iraq.
    Well-placed sources in the administration said that Washington has
expressed displeasure with high-profile public statements made in recent
days by both Prime Minister Sharon and Defense Minister Binyamin
Ben-Eliezer. The two had warned that Israel "would not stand idly by"
while Lebanese authorities constructed pumping stations meant to divert
the waters of the Hazbani River, just north of the Israeli border.
Administration officials reportedly asked Israel to "lower the tone" of
its warnings, in order to allow American efforts, led by Secretary of
State Colin Powell, to try and achieve an amicable diplomatic solution.
    The Hazbani, one of the tributaries of the Jordan River, supplies
Israel with 150 million cubic meters of water annually, one-sixth of the
amount that streams each year into the Sea of Galilee and the Jordan and
about 10% of Israel's annual water consumption. The Lebanese diversion,
when completed, could siphon off up to 50 million cubic meters of water
annually, at a time of increasing droughts and diminishing water
supplies throughout the Middle East.
    Israeli security sources bluntly accuse Lebanon of a "conspiracy to
steal water from Israel." The sources claimed that under international
law, the Lebanese "provocation" is a clear-cut casus belli, and that
Israel will not hesitate to act "in self-defense" in order to assert its
long-standing rights to the Hazbani waters.
    The Israeli sources deflected Washington's complaints against
Israel's public threats, saying that these threats had "jolted the
administration out of its complacency." But the sources warned that
ultimately Israel and the United States may not see eye-to-eye on the
resolution of the dispute, and that these differences could lead to
tensions between the two countries on the eve of an expected American
attack against Baghdad.
    Last year, Israel disregarded a more modest Lebanese project to pump
3 million cubic meters of water from the Hazbani, because the amount was
deemed too small to justify military action. But the new, more ambitious
project, if and when completed, would deny Israel significant amounts of
water and seriously deplete its annual water supplies.
    A similar attempt by Syria and Jordan to divert the waters of the
Yarmukh River led to a prolonged but controlled war of attrition between
Israel and Syria in the early 1960s, before the Six-Day War. Security
analysts believe, however, that given today's charged atmosphere and
changed circumstances, any Israeli action, by air or by land, could
easily escalate into a confrontation with Hezbollah, and, in short
order, with Syria itself.
    Exactly such a nightmare scenario worried Washington enough to send
a team of experts last weekend to the site of the pumping project, near
the Wazani tributary of the Hazbani River. In New York this week, Powell
promised Foreign Minister Shimon Peres that the administration would do
its utmost to restore the status quo ante or to work out a new water
agreement which would be acceptable to Israel.
    According to Western sources in Israel, the Americans are concerned
that an Israeli-Lebanese military confrontation could inflame emotions
throughout the Middle East and make it even more difficult for
Washington to enlist Arab support for an attack against Saddam Hussein.
According to these sources, the Americans have not only asked Israel to
maintain a low profile about the Hazbani, but have also repeated their
plea that Israel refrain from public statements concerning an expected
offensive against Iraq.
    Sharon himself has kept relatively quiet about the Iraqi question,
but not so Peres, who said in New York this week that Baghdad must be
attacked lest "the Free World repeat its mistakes of 1938," when the
Allies failed to confront Hitler. Israel's military chief of staff,
Lieutenant General Moshe Ya'alon, also said publicly that Israel "is
prepared, both offensively and defensively" to meet any threat of attack
from Iraq.
    But more than political and military leaders, it is the Israeli
press that is whipping up public attention — verging on what some call
hysteria — about the dangers of an Iraqi attack on Israel. In the wake
of President Bush's forceful speech against Iraq in the United Nations
General Assembly last week, Israel's newspapers and electronic media
have been giving saturation coverage to Israel's allegedly
under-prepared civil defense.
    According to sources in the army's Home Front Command, the country
lacks at least 1.5 million gas masks needed to adequately meet an Iraqi
chemical or biological attack against civilian population centers, and
factories have been ordered to work around the clock to bridge the gap.
The army, for its part, denies the whole story.
    Still traumatized by the 1991 Iraqi Scud missile attacks as well as
by post-September 11 fears of non-conventional warfare, Israelis have
lately been subjected to a growing stream of frightening media reports
concerning the possible aftermath of an Iraqi attack. Zvi Bar, mayor of
Ramat Gan, the Tel Aviv suburb that was most damaged in 1991, has
already publicized his intention to evacuate the entire city to a
tent-town north of Tel Aviv, while other municipal authorities have
designated Ramat Gan's National Park as a potential site for mass
burials, in case of a devastating Iraqi attack.
    This, despite the fact that neither Israeli nor American
intelligence have any specific information about whether Saddam is
capable of launching a new missile attack against Israel, and even if he
is, whether he has the technological know-how to equip these missiles
with non-conventional warheads.
    Nonetheless, to allay Israel's fears, the administration in recent
days renewed its pledge to neutralize any potential missile-launching
sites in western Iraq at the outset of any campaign against Baghdad.
Despite the fact that this time around the United States will not be
leading an "international coalition" that includes Arab partners, as it
did in the Persian Gulf War, Washington has made it plain that it would
still prefer that Israel not get involved in any new offensive. And the
administration has been told, in no uncertain terms, that if attacked,
Israel would not show "restraint" this time around.
    Thus, despite the recent lull in Palestinian terrorism, Israelis are
still living in perpetual perception of impending gloom and doom. War
will come, most Israelis feel, one way or another, either with Yasser
Arafat, or with Saddam, or, failing that, as a result of the sinister
developments on the Lebanese border.

 Il che vuol dire che forse il conflitto va valutato in altra maniera
Acqua, petrolio, tutto fuori che il diritto di israele ad esistere e a
vivere in pace senza minacce terroristiche.
Questo per i microcefali della sinistra di it.politica non e' un motivo
valido.
Ah, e i terroristi islamici non esistono, sono sempre bufale e comunque
non se ne puo' parlare male. E rosicate se li attentati vengono
sventati. Siete patetici.

 sventati. Siete patetici.
Illetterato, cita dove rosico, dove dico che i terroristi non esistono.
Dire che esistono e  fanno il gioco di chi dicono di combattere e'
statisticamente accurato. Documentati.

 statisticamente accurato. Documentati.
che interesse abbiano stati uniti e uk a vivere in uno stato di assedio lo
sai solo tu.

 statisticamente accurato. Documentati.
Neghi, copri, e' sempre colpa dell'occidente, non riesci ad ammettere
che il terrorismo nasce dall'odio dei valori iccidentali di libverta' e
democrazia. Roscichi, eccome se rosichi, imbecille.

 
http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2006/08/hezbollah-not-to-blame-for-war-bush.html
Il Litani è tra gli obiettivi principali di Israele.
Il noto "complottista" lo aveva denunciato da tempo.
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 sai solo tu.
Beh, i precedenti storici non depongono a favore.
Sono sempre entrati in guerra a seguito di alcuni "casus belli"
particolari. Israele poi sotto la spinta dei generali ha fatto
dell'emergenza permanente il centro della politica estera.
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