Violent Conflict Over Water Hit a Record Last Year (msn.com)
- Reference: 0180231041
- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/28/1356212/violent-conflict-over-water-hit-a-record-last-year
- Source link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/violent-conflict-over-water-hit-a-record-last-year/ar-AA1Rc0Pq
The Middle East reported the most incidents at 138, including 66 tied to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Israeli military destroyed more than 30 wells in Rafah and Khan Yunis, and there were numerous reports of settlers destroying pipelines and tanks in the West Bank. The Russia-Ukraine war accounted for 51 incidents, including strikes that disrupted water service in Ukrainian cities.
[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/violent-conflict-over-water-hit-a-record-last-year/ar-AA1Rc0Pq
Only going to increase. (Score:1)
The number of violent conflicts is only going to increase from now on. Climate change is only causing things to shift and our water management practices are not very good to start with.
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Population growth on top of climate change is going to make the next several years lots of fun.
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The examples named were not of conflicts over water, they were of Russians and Israelis creating water shortages as a weapon.
Not wars over water (Score:4, Insightful)
Neither Ukraine/Russia nor Palestine/Israel are wars over water.
Re: Not wars over water (Score:1)
The conflict is over ethnic cleansing. Water is being used as a weapon.
Re: Not wars over water (Score:1, Troll)
It can be many things at once. Israel was awarded the vast majority of arable land and stole/occupied the Golan Heights specifically for its water resources. They continually destroy Palestinian cisterns and irrigation systems. They're occupying/stealing new parts of Syria and Lebanon for the same purpose. Water is very much a scarce resource they hoard as well as use as a weapon.
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> Similarly, if the Arabs wanted peace more than they wanted honor, they would have granted full citizenship to "Palestinians" in their territory instead of keeping them as refugees for four generations now.
That could be said to apply to the West Bank to a certain extent, as far as I remember (and I was a kid when it happened) that was the part left over after Israel had grabbed the land - kicking the previous occupants out which was the initial State of Israel. Refugees from there mostly landed in Lebanon, Jordan and Gaza.
Israel backed Christian militia perpetrated a [1]massacre (Sabra and Shatila) in 1982 [middleeasteye.net] after the armed PLO fighters had withdrawn from the area and I have no idea what the situation is there no
[1] https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/sabra-shatila-massacre-survivors-anniversary
A good nuclear bombing will learn everyone (Score:1)
to behave themselves for another couple of generations, perhaps.
Re: A good nuclear bombing will learn everyone (Score:1)
Not really. Those who need the lesson the most are the ones that actually used them against people for fun. The lesson they learned last time was that nuclear weapons can be used against people for fun, profit and draining the earth of its natural resources and life sustaining capacity.
It's horrible (Score:2)
Just the other day I was driving along the coast of Lake Erie and saw two seagulls over the water in a huge conflict over what appeared to be a french fry. Brutal.
Let me guess ... (Score:2)
> The Israeli military destroyed more than 30 wells in Rafah and Khan Yunis, and there were numerous reports of settlers destroying pipelines and tanks in the West Bank
Let me guess ... the wells were in "schools" and "hospitals" ... right under the rocket launchers, lol
420 conflicts (Score:2)
I read that as H2O conflicts first... I will let someone else insert the other obvious meme.