Rivers of the Arabs | Middle East

The Renaissance Dam crisis between Egypt and Ethiopia worsens. The Superior Media Council included discussion of the issue in the context of customary law, which indicates its danger to the state and the armed forces. Since the onset of the crisis, there have been voices in Egypt calling for the direction of the war. Clearly these are emotional voices, but war doesn’t solve anything, because we are facing a geographic problem, not a political dispute.
The name of the Nile was associated with Egypt. It is not only his gift, as Herodotus said, but his daughter and his twin. But there is a common problem between the great Arab rivers and their historic waters: like the Nile, like the Tigris and Euphrates, its sources are in other countries. The country of “Mesopotamia”, that is to say Iraq, its rivers rise in Turkey before continuing the route towards Iraq and Syria.
This fact poses the greatest security and existential threat to both countries, and Turkey alluded to this danger years ago, when it claimed it was building construction work in estuaries and withholding huge amounts of water from Syria.
It is probable that the Nile is the longest river in the world and that it crosses ten countries. But it does not bear in the global consciousness only the name of Egypt. Now another country has come to claim a stake. This share, legal or not, would endanger a natural Egyptian Hana, over seven thousand years old.
OKAY. If war doesn’t solve the problem, what does it solve? Laws on fresh and salt water as well as on land. But Ethiopia is stubborn and arrogant and ignores Cairo’s initiatives and good intentions.
Today, Egypt is bringing the issue to the United Nations after the failure of all mediators, including American mediation, and before that, Africa. The conflict arouses national sentiment in both countries. Especially in Egypt, where the Nile is history, life and death. And fertility and drought and the risk of famine and major crises.
The internationalization of the issue is Egypt’s simplest right. And before that, Arabization, because the danger of drought is nothing less than the danger of occupation. Like the Sinai and Taba problem, like the Renaissance dam. Sovereignty is not only land. even more.
It is not necessary for a military war to begin for the world, and especially the Arabs, to realize the extent of the danger to which Egypt is exposed. The crisis continues to worsen, only the logical development (before fraternal) of the position of Sudan, which is a third of the problem, has reduced its gravity.
Perhaps this is an opportunity to agree on a final concept on these issues. Ethiopia is not the first to ignore the rights of others.