THE ROLE OF WATER TO THE PRACTICE OF DIFFERENT POLITICS BY ISRAEL BETWEEN THE TERRITORIES OF THE WEST BANK AND THE GAZA STRIP

Abstract

This article deals with a historical rescue of an important period in the history of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, delimited by the interim under the Oslo Accords (1993) and the implementation of Israel's Unilateral Withdrawal Plan (2005). Through a deductive methodology, the article proposes an assessment of the availability and water consumption framework in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and in Israel in the early 1990s, in order to present the role of water resources as a motivator of discriminatory policies practices of Israel between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.The article does not pretend to point to the water issue as the only motivator of the Israeli geopolitical practice, but intends to problematize the different strategic values of the Palestinian territories in relation to the water supply, aiming at the proposal of a careful look at the weight of the natural resource in the subsoil of the West Bank as an obstacle to Palestinian pretensions. The analysys of the two events is due to the difference observed in the strategic value of the Palestinian territories analyzed in its occasion, which motivated the collection of data coherent with the historical context of nineties.This article further concludes that the water resources of the West Bank subsoil play a very important role in the practice of discriminatory policies by Israel over the Occupied Palestinian Territories.