... Syria and Israel. In 1956 the completion of Israel's National Water Carrier marked a turning point. The main aim of this carrier was to channel water from Lake Tiberias throughout the country for agriculture and drinking water. However Israel's actions were not just for economic reasons, they had political purposes. For Eshkol, control of the water ways was vital for Israeli survival ... started to provoke the Syrians by sending tractors to plough the fields in the DMZ, wait for them to be fired on and then retaliate. At first these tractor-induced cross-fires ˜were short with little d...

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