Millennium Dam: Facts and Fallacies (5)
The Political Concerns:
In a study prepared by Dr. Saif al-Din Yusuf Mohamed Saied on “The implications of the Renaissance Dam on Sudanese water security”, he discussed some foreign strategies that may pose political problems for the downstream countries: Egypt and Sudan. He gave special attention to the American and Israeli strategies, this in addition to the possible problems that the host country Ethiopia might pose. This study has been discussed in special forums and published by some newspapers lately. The following extracts of the study have been published on Al Intibaha Newspaper on the 10th of this July.
The Israeli strategy in the Nile Basin
The Israel’s ambitions in the waters of the Nile run back to old times. There are studies and some plans to get 1% of the Nile water since 1903/1974/1979. To achieve this end, it has also prepared detailed studies for each of Ethiopia, Zaire, Rwanda and Uganda to build dams and establish agricultural projects. And through its presence in the countries of the Nile, it planned to purchase and get ownership of agricultural land with Jewish capital, claiming the establishment of agricultural projects in those territories especially in (Ethiopia and the democratic Republic of Congo). Furthermore, Israel is seeking to incite the Nile Basin countries to ask for reconsidering the water shares of the Nile River. Arnon Sofer affirms this in his book “conflict over water in the Middle East” in which he has stated that “Israel has a special strategy for the Nile basin countries, and the distribution of water quotas among the Nile basin countries directly affects Israel, so Israel has to coordinate with Ethiopia in this respect).
Reading this the downstream countries of the Nile Basin have real concerns that cannot be waved away easily because of the continuous animosity that plagued their region since the establishment of the Israeli state against the will of the nations of the region.
(Continues next Insha’a Allah)
In a study prepared by Dr. Saif al-Din Yusuf Mohamed Saied on “The implications of the Renaissance Dam on Sudanese water security”, he discussed some foreign strategies that may pose political problems for the downstream countries: Egypt and Sudan. He gave special attention to the American and Israeli strategies, this in addition to the possible problems that the host country Ethiopia might pose. This study has been discussed in special forums and published by some newspapers lately. The following extracts of the study have been published on Al Intibaha Newspaper on the 10th of this July.
The Israeli strategy in the Nile Basin
The Israel’s ambitions in the waters of the Nile run back to old times. There are studies and some plans to get 1% of the Nile water since 1903/1974/1979. To achieve this end, it has also prepared detailed studies for each of Ethiopia, Zaire, Rwanda and Uganda to build dams and establish agricultural projects. And through its presence in the countries of the Nile, it planned to purchase and get ownership of agricultural land with Jewish capital, claiming the establishment of agricultural projects in those territories especially in (Ethiopia and the democratic Republic of Congo). Furthermore, Israel is seeking to incite the Nile Basin countries to ask for reconsidering the water shares of the Nile River. Arnon Sofer affirms this in his book “conflict over water in the Middle East” in which he has stated that “Israel has a special strategy for the Nile basin countries, and the distribution of water quotas among the Nile basin countries directly affects Israel, so Israel has to coordinate with Ethiopia in this respect).
Reading this the downstream countries of the Nile Basin have real concerns that cannot be waved away easily because of the continuous animosity that plagued their region since the establishment of the Israeli state against the will of the nations of the region.
(Continues next Insha’a Allah)
By A.S. Alkoronki - GMS, 17 hours 43 minutes
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