Lebanon — Water wars with Israel, and the Road to 1967

By the mid-1950s, the regional water conflict entered a new and far more volatile phase. Where earlier decades had been defined by Zionist frustration over losing the Litani, the 1950s and 1960s witnessed the emergence of an organised Arab response — an attempt to prevent Israel from exploiting the headwaters of the Jordan River. Lebanon, […] By Mohammad Fakih