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Analysis: Shebaa Farms key to Levant hydro-diplomacy
Beirut :: Lebanon | 6 days ago
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The politics of the Israeli-occupied Shebaa Farms, a rugged sliver of mountainside wedged between Lebanon, Israel and Syria, have long overshadowed what some Lebanese environmentalists call “the real issue” of the disputed area: its water resources. Now...
Tags: Israeli, Shebaa Farms, Lebanon, Syrian Golan Heights, River Jordan, Fadi Comair, water needs, IISD, Middle East, Lebanese Water Ministry, Beirut, Golan Heights, Great Rift Valley, Hasbani River, Lebanon War, Politics, Fertile Crescent, Disputed territories, Israel-Lebanon conflict
River Jordan: Conflict and Cooperation
In the Middle East, water is a source of conflict and an opportunity for peace. From the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea and all along the River Jordan there is a need for cooperation over water. In the mountain aquifer under West Bank settlements there...
Tags: Israel, Palestine, West Bank, Jericho, Middle East, Jews, Jordan, River Jordan, Sea of Galilee, Dead Sea, World Bank, Weeam Iriqat, Peace, Cooperation, Conflict, 1967, Six Day War, Syria, Christians, Muslims, Settlements, Gidon Bromberg, Friends of the Earth Middle East, Nadeer Khateeb, Munqeth Mehyar, Green Line, Ma'aleh Adumim, Mevesseret Adumim, Azariyah
Greetings, Saalam, Shalom Mr. President of the USA and of the PA
By Yoram Getzler co-host israelseen.com Greetings, Saalam & Shalom Mr. President (of the USA and of the PA) Everybody seems to take it for granted that a “Palestinian State” is for Palestinians, who are by enlarge Arab & Muslim....
Tags: Arab Republic Of Egypt, Critical Issue, Distrust, Insistence, Islamic Republic Of Iran, Jewish State, Mr President, Muslim World, Netanyahu, Palestinian Arab, Palestinian Side, Palestinian State, Palestinians, President Of The Usa, Republic Of Egypt, Republic Of Iran, River Jordan, Sole Reason, Two States
Jordan summons Israeli envoy to Amman
Amman :: Jordan | 6 months ago
Credibility Jordan's foreign minister summoned Israel's ambassador to Tuesday to protest a proposal National Union MK Arye Eldad made in the Knesset last week that Palestinians be given Jordanian citizenship. According to the official Petra news agency, Nasser Judeh...
Tags: Israeli Knesset, Jordan River, Jordanian, River Jordan, israelis ambassador, Nasser Judeh, foreign minister, summoned israelis, jordan summoned, MK Aryeh Eldad
Cleanup the holy rivers
The River Jordan where Jesus Christ was baptized is today nothing but a stink with the water a mere trickle. This has happened due to large scale pollution from neighboring human settlements and the net result is that the once vibrant bubbling river is...
Tags: river jordan, river ganges, ganga action plan, jesus christ
Pope visits historic baptism site in Jordan
Amman :: Jordan | 6 months ago
Credibility Pope Benedict XVI travelled to the banks of the River Jordan, where some believe John the Baptist baptised his cousin Jesus, to lay foundation stones for two new Catholic churches. The visit came on the third day of the pontiff's Holy Land pilgrimage...
Tags: Pope Benedict XVI, Middle East, Israel, Jordan River, Jordanian, River Jordan, Jesus
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