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Water in the Middle East - Potential for Conflicts and Prospects for Cooperation (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
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Water in the Middle East - Potential for Conflicts and Prospects for Cooperation (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
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The fonner Egyptian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and
fonner UN Secre tary General, Butros Butros Ghali stated after the
second Gulf War "The next war in the Middle East will not be fought
for oil, but for water. " This famous statement has been echoed by
many politicians: shortly before be coming president of Turkey,
SOleyman Demirel declared that the waters of the Euphrates and
Tigris belonged to Turkey, just as oil belongs to the Arabs. Rafael
Eytan, at that time and now again Israeli Minister of Agriculture,
declared in 1990 in full-page advertisements in the Jerusalem Post
that Israel would never cede the West Bank to the Palestinians
because Israel's water supply would otherwise be endangered.
Finally, Ismail Serageldin, vice president of the World Bank,
declared in 1995 that "the wars of the next century will be over
water." These statements are typical of the atmosphere reigning in
the Middle East and in several other places around the world
concerning the issue of international fresh water resources.
Whether these perceptions correspond to an actual threat to a
nation's water supply or whether they correspond to the official
position of states in negotiations often conducted secretly, is an
entirely different matter. A closer analysis of the issue of
international fresh water resources, as we attempt in this book,
admittedly reveals a dangerous potential for conflict over water."
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