WORLD : Israel Claims Control of Water
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JERUSALEM — Israel’s government ran a full-page statement in newspapers today saying the Jewish state must never surrender control of the water beneath the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
“It is difficult to conceive of any political solution consistent with Israel’s survival that does not involve complete continued Israeli control of the water and sewerage systems,” the advertisement from the Ministry of Agriculture said.
The ministry is run by Rafael Eitan, chief of the army when Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982 and now an ultra-nationalist member of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir’s rightist Cabinet that took office in June.
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