Instead of fighting over water, why not have everybody pray for lots of rain?

but it would be helpful to know who those experts are, with names or affiliation, perhaps.

Are you that eager to give Syria a pretext to attack Israel?

because bits of the Litani come close to Israel?

What experts? Anonymous experts? Who are these mysterious experts who say this? This article is no good. Journalistically, what experts, a name, a title...? Something!

Amir Ben-David ? who is he ? WHY does he allow his name to appear on an article that quotes anonymous "experts" ? WHY is Ynet so poorly edited that such anonymous "experts" can be quoted ? moshe, Israel.

Let me remind you that Golan is part of Israel We do whatever we want here In the same league,why don't you question turkey's right to pump euphrate's water against syria's interest??

Israel stoled land from Palestinians, Jordan, Lebanon and even Egypt!!! Gov't steal money from Israeli people, as former finance minister and (dead) Sharon & Sons. so why not to steal water????!? No news in this!!!

Just maybe instead of importing weapons from iran , they can drink irianian oil .Or they can use the oil to purchase Israeli water which will inturn bring down the price of gas in Israel. This is my solution the easy way , but allways as in arab culture that way would be to easy , so lets just fight for it this summer ! The IDF has learned its lessons in not preparing for war , I think this time we also will engage in a full cofrontation with no hands tied behind our backs and bring out the big guns and big missles and let damascus burn.

so, if true, this is dangerous. As much as I'm in favor of Israel keeping much or all of the Golan, we must preserve Syrian water rights there. However, I add my voice to the chorus -- there's no reason for anonymity in this kind of story. Who are the experts and how do they know it?

...depriving Syria of major water resources, "experts" said Sunday. Glad to know "experts" are your resource! The question is, which experts are you quoting with such authority?

You can't say it's "Syrian water" just because it would eventually flow to Syria. If Israel pumps on its own territory, then it's Israel's water.

Are the "experts from the Syrian Baath Party?

You want to talk of stealing? Jews were in Libya, Egypt and Morocco, to name a few examples of what are now considered "Arab" countries, before Arabs were there. Some places like Iraq, they've lived there at least as long. Jews never tried to make those places "Jewish" countries, yet when the Arabs got there suddenly now these became "Arab" countries. Who did YOU steal them from? What happened to the Berbers of Morocco? What about the African Egyptians? To support your claim to this land, you STEAL the lineage of Jews, Caananites and Philistines who preceded you, claiming to be their descendants, so that the true descendants of the Ancient Jews will be left to bake in German ovens while you pressure the world to turn their back. Not only do you STEAL, but you were accomplices to MURDER. How about the Arab general who believed the Kuran was so great, written as it was by your namesake, Mohammed, that he felt on the chance something was written that disagreed with the Kuran that he could STEAL the entire library of Alexandria and burn it with the entirety of knowledge collected by the Western World for the 2000 years previous? Ever wonder why the Muslims led the intellectual advancement for the next few hundred years? Because they STOLE the knowledge from the WEST, and obliterated their ability to access knowledge. And now Judea and Samaria and its capital Jerusalem, is the target of complaints that it is being "Judaized" by people who changed the names of these places to "Palestine" and "Al Quds", STEALING their identity? Now, I can expect that Suadi Arabia is where I'd find Arabs. But, Arabs I'd find in a place called "Judea"? No, rather there I'd expect to find JEWS. You think a few hundred years trumps our few thousands here? Who's STEALING from whom, Mohammed? You want to talk about theft, you guys TAUGHT the world about theft. The American Navy was established to deal with Arab piracy off the Barbary Coast, just to give one example. You steal from each other (Iraq vs. Kuwait, Hamas vs. PA, Jordan vs. W. Bank, Syria vs. Lebanon) and you have the nerve to cast suspicions on us? The problem with you and people who think like you Mohammed is that you manufacture truth. You define anything that you don't agree with as a lie. Whoever disagrees with you gets boycotted or kidnapped or other worse fates. Israel gets mistreated in the UN, at universities and trade unions, while Arab despots can steal and cudgel and kill and nobody makes a peep. What does that say about what people expect from Arabs, vs. what they expect from Jews, Mohammed? It doesn't mean that they don't expect Arabs to steal, that's for sure. FYI, everybody, the reason why Israel bombed those damns in Syria was because they were designed to parch Israel. None of the water could escape. Israel is entitled to take a percentage of the water from streams falling in its territory, the same way Syria can. There's a difference between what the two sides did and do, not to mention that Syria has HUGE supplies of water from rivers, and Israel has only ONE river to supply its territory. It's not the same situation at all.

Still are continuing it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNBwXDEn8fQ&mode=related&search=

It's very abvious that you need to review your sources of history, cuz what you wrote is full of lies, as Israeli leadership always lies!!! then Arabs didn't kick out people from their land, as your theif regime did and still doing. Muslims and Arabs took all the great and precious knowledge and added on it, not destroyed it as Israel did during occupying Arab lands and killing innicent people. A little advice, don't talk about the other occupying force (American Navy) as you both steal, but they OIL, and you steal water and other things. "UN, universities and trade unions" and others respectful parties just think freely and they are right, you deserve to be boycotted until you stop stealing lives from children, land and .... water. "Israel has only ONE river to supply its territory" Again, Israel stole the river, the water and the territory, and it seems brains of Israelis are being stolen, as you are not thinking correctly!!!

no news there.

The solution to this issue is for Israel to conquer Syria and reclaim the source of the spring. Simple.

Since your here and have lots to say i have a question for you. Your always saying Israel steals from Palestinians. My question is, When did the Palestinians ever have a country? If they did, who was there leader, what goverments represented them, who was there President, ruler, King, what ever you want to call him or her please tell us what curncie your beloved Palestine used. Oh as your thinking about your answer you can go back into history as far back as you want. We are all waiting to hear you repply.

Enemy interest is important? Golan is not a basar bargain issue!

For years Syria has refused all attempts to craft a sane water use treaty with anyone: Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and today Syria WASTES more than 4x as much fresh water (by dumping it in the ocean) as Israel, the West Bank and Jordan consume, combined. So screw them and let them whine. Soon enough it will be a crisis for them and we should all tell them to kiss off.

According to an Egyptian proverb, "Wisdom has alighted on three things: the brain of he Franks, the hands of hte Chinese and the tongue of the Arabs". So in that vain, Mohammed, you share a historic advantage and pitfall - you can talk the talk better than anybody alive, but, historically, you can't walk the walk. You've got nothing to teach me about history, as I'll soon show. The Muslims' destruction of the library of Alexandria in 641 took place less than a decade after Mohammed's death. It was the 2nd great fire, the first having taken place in 48 BCE, but it took a huge toll. 700 years later, the Arabs took only the texts they thought worthy and consistent with the Kuran, mostly those dealign with mathematics, geometry, astronomy and the like, and burned all the books related to the arts and humanities because acc. to the general who ordered it, the Kuran has all the truth in it, so what agrees isn't needed and what doesn't should be destroyed anyway. It took 6 months for this city of 100,000 people to burn through it all as FIREWOOD. And you've got the nerve to say Israelis steal? So you want credit for stealing the science stuff only to translate it into Arabic and to "re-elaborate" it? You got it. But you've got the blame for burning the humanities books (plays, etc.) and too bad, the evidence shows you had a lot to learn from it. And also too bad that the likes of Al Khwarizmi, Ibn Ishaq, Hubaysh and similar became rare amongst Arabs by the time Ibn Sina (Avicenna) lived. Then the great Arabic academies of Bagdhad (which by the way was in no small part great due to Jewish scholars) began to fall when the precursor to today's medrassahs decided to eschew the study of ancient Greek philosophy, seeing how they could get it to square with the Kuran, and instead to study ancient poetry. Then, even the science you guys stole from the West was left homeless until the universities of Europe picked it up again. And yes, Arabs kicked lots of people out of their land, unless of course they "chose" to become Muslims. Remember, there aren't so many of you just because you f*** more than the rest of us. And if Israel is so busy kicking Arabs out, how come 20% of Israelis are Arab, and 0% of Arabs are Jews? How did all those Jews who lived in places like Baghdad for 2500 years get here? As far as the US Navy stealing, I bet the American's would be shocked to find out that at $2 a gallon they are stealing, while somehow the cash rolls in to the Emirates and the like. How did that money get there? How is it that when Arabs steal something it's coming to them, but when Americans pay for it it's stealing? Ah, theArab tongue thing. Got it. A "turn of a phrase" that was. Listen, Mohammed of "Al Quds", you've got nothing in terms of "thinking correctly' to add. You're as brainwashed as the rest of your Arab brothers and sisters. It's not the Jews going around and blasting people to bits who they think don't "think correctly", it's you guys. That we didn't steal this Land is something we know - we don't need you to say we didn't. You're nothing to us. We ignore you because we are secure in our beliefs. When you guys have a problem, and that problem is that someone doesn't see things the way you do, you make sure the rest of us have a problem, too. That's our problem, not that we don't "think correctly".