Friday, May 04, 2007

Bridge between Egypt and Saudi Arabia gets go-ahead-News-World-Middle East-TimesOnline

Water for drinking and farming is the most underappreciated long term cause of difficulty in any dream of peaceful coexistence among Israel and its Arab neighbors including the Palestinians. This story is about a proposed bridge between Egypt and Saudi Arabia that could cause problems over another type of water, the Gulf of Aqaba, which could pose a strategic threat to Israel's access to the Red Sea through Eilat, as well as the development of both sides of the bridge, with a concomitant threat to the security of all nations in the area. Watch this one -- it could be a sleeper issue....

Bridge over troubled waters gets go-ahead-News-World-Middle East-TimesOnline

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