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Many reasoned and serious commentators (who don't take the time to post on Salon) would say that the real reason for the Israeli occupation of the West Bank is to secure a sizeable proportion of the watershed of the River Jordan, so as to ensure a viable water supply in the coming times of water shortage (very similar to the reasons behind the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Darfur, which seems to have now slipped of the media radar). The stated Zionist cause of settling the "promised land" is little more than a convenient cover story. The late Robin Cook, the British Foreign Secretary who made a principled (and prescient) stand against the invasion of Iraq before apparently dying of a heart attack while out hill-walking, stated in a speech shortly before his death, that the coming century would see a massive increase in conflicts worldwide as a result of states attempting to secure dwindling water supplies on a warming planet.
