LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
water resource for the Palestinians in the West Bank. The situation is dire!
As far as seawater flooding of the ter-
rorist tunnels by the Israeli soldiers goes, I have been watching the television news since the beginning of the current war with Hamas. The reporters took pictures of some of the captured tunnels. From the images, I did not see any signs that groundwater was leaking into the tunnels. Could Hamas have installed well points for keeping the tunnels dry? Were the tunnels depicted on the news above the water table? Maybe the tunnels that were depicted were close to the ground surface? It’s hard to know what impact the introduction of seawater is having on the local groundwater resources. We just don’t have enough information.
References
Fuks, D., et al, 2017: Dust clouds, climate change and coins: Consiliences of palaeo- climate and economy in the Late Antique southern, Levant, 19 pp.
Israel Meteorological Service, various dates 1952-1953 to 2020-2021: Climate Atlas,
ims.gov.il/en/Climate Atlas
Survey of Israel, 1970: Atlas of Israel – Cartography, Physical Geography,
Human and Economical Geography, History, Survey of Israel,
Min. of Labour, Jerusalem.
Raphael Ketani, CPG-09003 Sunnyside, NY
Author’s Response Dear Editor, I thank Mr. Katani for comments. No
offense, but Mr. Katani is incorrect in that the State of Israel carefully controls the delivered freshwater supply; provision of fuel, medical supplies, seeds, fertilizers, and farm equipment; imports and exports, water, wastewater, desalination, electrical facilities, and plants.
Essentially, Israel controls Gaza’s and
the West Bank’s agriculture, manufactur- ing, imports/exports, economy - just about everything but the weather, though it can be argued that the Jewish state controls the climate of its Arab possessions. Mr. Katani suggests that Hamas provides seawater- leaching systems to eliminate irreversible seawater contamination of groundwater associated with its tunnels. That’s news to me. It’s great to learn that some AIPG TPG readers actually read this fine journal. Bless the inquisitIve mind.
Barney P. Popkin
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