Arab experts predict Mideast water wars

And the ignorance rears its head.

wouldnt arab experts conclude everything is a possible cause of war?
i mean i cant recall exactly why it was that iraq and iran were at war for a decade
why was it again that iraq invaded kuwait?
what are the sunnis and shia fighting about again?

so with a lack of actual evidence to support a hatefull agenda just report what you best guess your hatefull rehtoric will be in the future?
watewr shortages are not a new event in the region its a fucking desert water shortages are the basis of the description of the terrain.
the jews of israel have taken undeveloped desert land that sat baron under british and ottaman rule and have made it fertile again. it doesnt seem reasonable that with the amount of planning anf effort israel puts into ints agro-infrastructure that thier water needs wont be met.
not to mention that just 6 monts ago or so in the interest of providing water not only for israel but sharing it with thier nieghbors israel made an agreemant (mutualy beneficial) with jordan. no war just reasoned discussion.
who is it in the region that goes to war at the drop of a hat? not israel but hamas, ya know the guys who got gaza free and claer in 2005 and thanked israel for it by increasing terror attacks

Excerpt:
An Arab water expert warns that Yemen's worsening water shortage, which is already causing civil unrest, will bolster extremist organizations that could ignite conflicts with nearby states.

These two views reflect a widely held fear in the Middle East that global warming, dwindling water resources and burgeoning populations will trigger wars over water in the not-too-distant future.

The Jordanian, political science professor Ghazi al-Rababah, was quoted by the Amman newspaper Al-Arab Al-Yawm as saying Israel would first go to war with Lebanon over the Litani River just north of the border with the Jewish state.

David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, advocated years before the state of Israel was proclaimed in 1948, that the Jewish state should incorporate the Litani.

Israel diverted water from the Litani during its 1978-2000 occupation of south Lebanon. Al-Rababah said Israel stole "hundreds of millions of cubic meters of water" from the river.

Although Israel is currently seeking to alleviate its worsening water shortage by constructing desalination plants, reportedly scheduled to be fully operational by 2013, al-Rababah declared that Israel would go to war with Egypt, its southern neighbor, within seven years in a bid to control the Nile River.

Amnesty International recently reported that Israel was restricting water supplies to the Gaza Strip, a tiny coastal enclave between the Jewish state and Egypt packed with an estimated 1.5 million Palestinians.

Gaza is ruled by the fundamentalist Hamas movement, which for years has fired rockets and mortars into Israel, and refuses to recognize the Jewish state. Israel has enforced an economic blockade of Gaza for nearly two years.

In response, the Israel Water Authority claims that Israelis have been allocated less water per capita than Arabs since 1967, when they captured the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan, the Sinai peninsula and Gaza from Egypt and the Golan Heights, a plateau that is an important water source, from Syria.

Sinai was handed back to the Egyptians under a 1979 peace treaty, the first between an Arab state and Israel.

The other territories remain under Israeli control. Israel signed another peace treaty with Jordan, its eastern neighbor, in 1994, but its monarch, King Hussein, had earlier relinquished any claim to the West Bank, which Palestinians want for an independent state.

The other Arab figure to predict regional conflict over water was Hosny Khordagui, director of the water governance program in Arab states with the U.N. Development Program.

In an interview with The Times of London he warned that the water shortages in Yemen, one of the poorest Arab countries, would cause more crime and violence, with growing support for "fanatical organizations" that could spill over into conflict with other states in the Red Sea and Horn of Africa region.