Overpumping aquifers in Turkiye, Syria and Lebanon

 

The NASA picture above shows the overpumping in the Eastern Mediterranean (except in Israel). Irrigated agriculture is becoming impossible, and yields are falling. It is said that ISIS was born in the impoverished northeast of Syria during a multiyear drought. The Turkish heartland is done, baked, and destined for rural stress and rebellion. Another country that has overdrawn its water resources is Yemen. The current situation is unsustainable.

We could grow jatt here and export it to Yemen because they have used up the little groundwater they had. 

Shakespeare in Jenin

 

The UNRWA West Bank office stated that it gained knowledge of the ongoing "presence of Palestinian armed actors" in the Health Centre in Jenin.

Actors? They must be presenting Shakespeare. 

Turkistan fighters in Syria

 Erdogan is rebuilding the Turkish empire and invited Uyghur nationalists to join the enterprise. Some 20,000 fighters are in North Syria. These are serious people. China will have some trouble with them. Turkiye vs China would renew a historical situation when China was conquered by Turkish nomads.

Canaan Dog Sanctuary in Gaza

Stray dogs frequently attack humans (including soldiers) in Gaza. They see Homo sapiens as food walking on two. In Korea, by contrast, people see dogs as food. In Israel, dogs are precious pets, fed the best and most expensive imported dog food. Some sensitive dogs are even taken to dog psychologists to treat their childhood traumas. 

Diversifying the Gut Microbiome

The kibbutz rugrats are let free and are enriching their gut microbiome with dog poop. Higher microbiome diversity is considered good for the health. The richer and more diverse the community of gut microbes are, the lower your risk of disease and allergies. 

The kibbutz menu of microbiome costs about 4,000 shekels       (one thousand American dollars) per month.  

Dogs dig up graves in Gaza to eat the deceased

“I received bodies in the morgue that dogs had eaten. Nothing remained but the skeleton.”, A graveyard keeper in Khan Younis described how stray dogs in Gaza that are looking for food keep coming to ... The aboriginal dogs of the race called Canaan dogs are generally yellow and form large groups that sometimes attack even living persons. Some have been seen in Jerusalem's outskirts. 

Back at Edrey

 According to local news, Zahal has entered Daraa, the capital of South Syria. Daraa dates back to the Canaanites. It was mentioned in Egyptian hieroglyphic tablets between 1490 and 1436 BC, during the reign of Pharaoh Thutmose III, as the city of Atharaa. In the Hebrew Bible, it is referred to as Edrei or Edre'i (אֶדְרֶעִי), the capital of Bashan, the site of a battle in which the Israelites defeated Og. 

Next we turned and headed for the land of Bashan, where King Og and his entire army attacked us at Edrei. But the Lord told me, "Do not be afraid of him, for I have given you victory over Og and his entire army, and I will give you all his land. Treat him just as you treated King Sihon of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon."

So the Lord our God handed King Og and all his people over to us, and we killed them all. Not a single person survived. We conquered all sixty of his towns—the entire Argob region in his kingdom of Bashan. Not a single town escaped our conquest. These towns were all fortified with high walls and barred gates. We also took many unwalled villages at the same time. We completely destroyed the kingdom of Bashan, just as we had destroyed King Sihon of Heshbon. We destroyed all the people in every town we conquered—men, women, and children alike. But we kept all the livestock for ourselves and took plunder from all the towns.