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Article: Water and peace: for clues to resolving the Middle East conflict, consider the case of the embattled Dead Sea.(Cover Story)
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- World Watch
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
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Headlines in the Western press depict a seemingly hopeless cycle of violence in the Israeli-Palestine sector of the Middle East. An Israeli warplane destroys the home of a militant Palestinian. A retaliatory suicide bomber blows up an Israeli bus. In both instances, innocent people die and the anger escalates.
Missing from the media coverage is any clear sense of what is going on in the day-to-day relationship between the two countries other than the sporadic violent exchanges. Between the missiles and bombs, people are--under great duress, and at great risk--continuing to trade services and goods, drive cross-border trucks, commute through checkpoints to their ...