Assassinated Lebanese Prime Minister Defended Lebanese Water Rights
An article from 2003 discusses the Israeli threat to invade Lebanon over the Hasbani and Wazzani Rivers project, which was defended by PM Hariri, who was later assassinated.
A water-pumping station in southern Lebanon that Israel said could be grounds for war has been supplying parched villages near the border with Israel for three months…
…Lebanon, Mr. Hariri said, also wants to protect its water rights. “We asked the U.N., U.S., EU and Russia to help us in defining the quantity of water” that Lebanon can obtain from the Wazzani according to the international laws, Mr. Hariri said.
He told UPI he believes the status quo will continue. “Maybe the political situation in the region does not allow peace, but it does not mean that the alternative is war,” Mr. Hariri said. The Wazzani River flows for about two miles inside Lebanon before entering Israel.
Joe Talamas said,
July 31, 2006 @ 6:52 pm
Hah! here is the real reason for Israel’s current overkill. No one in their right mind believes the two soldier story. The US has had many soldiers attacked or taken and we have never devastated a country over it. If it was Hazballah, why not work with Lebanon “covertly” -a very familiar operating mode for most countries, including Isreal. According to popular media, Lebanon wanted Hezballah out (or at least weakened and disarmed).The US works with Colombia to control militants there, for example. No…even without Lebanon’s agreement, we have equiped Isreal very well for them claim that they were unable to have taken the Hezballah leadership out. This freakout is something else… What is killingt me is how inept our media is and how easy it is to manipulate. No indepedant thinkers, no disenting view, no one questions anything. It’s frightening! We were all flipping over the Katrina hurricane (a natural disaster). While any loss is sad, the fact is that the property lost in the hurricane was old, wooden slums and the folks that were displaced were the usual irresponsible few. yet all of america was outraged and practically wanted to aust the President. Here, there is entire new cities being distroyed, probably along with other buildings of historic value, and we are Ok with that. Never mind the thousands of displaced folks without FEMA credit cards and handouts! This is an outrage, but what is most outrageous for me (basically more interested in how the US will survive) is the silence lack of balanced or even coherent reporting! Our unevolved fixation with Isreal can only be described as “wierd”. We should be loyal to our friends, but not to our own detriment and certainly not to the exclusion of all our other friends. What’s up with that?