See, it is possible - Israel and Syria have been talking

[Adrian II]

Sorry there Adrian, are you trying to say that the shelling starting in '64 was not directed at workers on the water scheme?

I objected to the suggested sequence, that is all. The Syrian shelling started right in 1948 and never really stopped. The reason was that the Syrians tried to stimy the quick development of the Hula Valley on the Israeli side of the border. Instead of developing their own country, they spent millions to turn the Golan into an artillery platform. The 1964 Israeli attack was an answer to the Syrian attempt to divert the local headwaters for the same purpose: to block Israeli agricultural development.

And yes, you are right that the regional waterways and waterbasins will either be part of an overall settlement of the cause of the next war.