Water

Letters from France
Water
By Robert Thompson
Jun 8, 2008, 09:30

I was listening to BBC Radio 4 this morning, when an item was broadcast from the Golan (the part of Syria still under enemy occupation) and an apple-growing "settler" said quite bluntly that he and his like needed to have full control of the water which rises in this strategic area, since he could not trust any other authority to exercise such control. This argument could be used by any other thief as a good reason to hold on to the proceeds of his or her crimes.

For some years it has been obvious that the principal strategic reason for the Zionist occupation of the Golan has never been the military need to defend the lands which had been stolen, but always a desire to control its water sources necessary to irrigate these lands wrested from their historic owners. Over the preceding centuries, successive generations of careful farmers had justified the biblical description of the whole area as a "land flowing with milk and honey".

The Zionist "state" drains vast volumes of water flowing southward from the Lebanon and from occupied Syria, and allows its ignorant unadapted incomers wastefully to use huge quantities, compared with which the indigenous farmers had learned through their long experience most prudently to keep their consumption to a minimum.

Even the most independent of commentators have for some years pointed out the stark contrasts between the "suburban-style" colonies established by the invaders in many parts of the Holy Land, where the incoming occupants even have the luxury of swimming pools in their gardens, while the inhabitants of nearby Palestinian villages (on whose expropriated land the colonies have been built) have insufficient water properly and economically to irrigate their crops.

Previously, these areas were famous throughout the region, and well beyond, for their olive groves and their citrus fruits, but it is now difficult for the local farmers to produce any crops on their parched land.

Too many are concentrating on oil as a precious commodity, but its importance is far less than that of water, essential for all of us to maintain life, and these thieves should not be allowed to keep their greedy hands on it.

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