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Originally Posted by Bleeding Red
Relatively peaceful times ????
Water rights will indeed be an issue (possibly a violent one) throughout the region. That is a peace process issue, but as it stands everyone is dipping into everyone else's wells. The major blocs get their water from Israel's aquafiers 7 De-salinization plants.
Israel withholds taxes that they collect for 2 reasons - 1) as a stick to get the PA to co-operate and 2) because the PA doesn't pay their bills - they get their gas & electricity from Israel, not other Arab states, and balk at paying for it.
As a tactic I have little issue with withholding PA tax dollars. It is far less bloody.
We are not talking about just one rocket, it is thousands of mortars & rockets.
You also can't keep poking the cubs and expect mama bear to take it with a smile.
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Approx. 450,000 Israeli illegal West Bank settlers get 5 times more water than the 2 million Palestinians. This is not "everyone dips into everyone else's wells". It's Israel treating the Palestinians like garbage. And last month they withheld $100 million because the Swiss government allowed Palestine to join the Geneva convention regarding rules of war and occupation. Before that, Israel withheld taxes when Palestine was granted upgraded status at the UN. So, basically whenever Palestine tries to become part of the int'l community, Israel responds by withholding their money. Yup, israel sure wants peace.