Rivers of Fire: The Conflict over Water in the Middle East معرفی و نقد

Offering support for Israel regarding this conflict (the “Six Day War”) Soffer noted Nurit Kliot’s contention in his book, Water Sources and Conflict in the Middle East, that the Arabs’ plan to divert half of Jordan’s sources of water reflects, more than any other scheme, the force of the J ewish-Arab conflict in general, and its concerns in particular. ” Israel, he said, “took all the Jordan sources for itself, ignored the water needs of the neighboring states, and in consequence increased its overall power. ” With respect to this, Soffer refers to a 1964 Damascus Radio broadcast, which concluded: “the diversion of Jordan River waters to the Negev is the greatest and most important event in the life of the enemy state. This plan, Soffer states, “was intended to provide water for irrigation in Lebanon, Syria and mainly Jordan.