Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq—these countries share a common denominator: groundwater, transboundary basins, and significant surface water reserves. A liquid so precious that it often sparks unacknowledged covetousness. Among the predators of this "blue gold" is the Zionist entity, which considers this element a strategic national priority. According to Israeli experts, the survival of the Zionist entity depends on water. Abandoning the dream of a "Greater Israel" by accepting the creation of a Palestinian state and returning land would mean losing access to this resource, thereby triggering existential fear. A sign of this frenzy: in Palestine, water resources have been under the control of the Israeli army since the 1967 war. Palestinians in the West Bank thus face discrimination that is rarely reported in international media. They are strictly prohibited from owning hydraulic installations or digging wells, while settlers have been drilling wells without restrictions for over forty years. If not through bombings and bulldozer demolitions under the benevolent protection of the military, the Zionist entity subtly pushes the Palestinian population to migrate and abandon their lands. According to the World Bank, 90% of the water in the occupied West Bank is used by Zionist settlers. In Syria, the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime presents an opportunity for Israel. The incursion of its army beyond the Golan Heights and Mount Hermon, as well as the continuous bombing of military installations from the Assad era up to the outskirts of Damascus, perfectly illustrate the persistent ambitions of Tel Aviv’s hawks regarding water. According to some reports, the Zionist entity now controls 40% of the water resources shared by Syria and Jordan. After seizing the Al-Wehda dam in the Yarmouk basin last December, Israeli forces advanced to the Al-Mantara dam. These dams irrigate vast agricultural areas between the city of Daraa and its countryside, extending to the vicinity of Sweida. A coincidence? This region is predominantly inhabited by Druze, whom Israel claims to protect against the new Damascus regime in the name of minority rights. The world truly operates upside down. The Zionists’ thirst for water thus drives them to set the region ablaze to establish regional dominance over this resource, which also carries symbolic weight—the reconstruction of the temple… but also its destruction.
El Moudjahid
