The 1906 Yarkon River Dispute: Palestine's First Water War
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Long before the water conflicts of the modern era, a quiet but pivotal struggle unfolded along the banks of the Yarkon River in 1906. As Zionist settlers from the newly established Petah Tikva sought to divert water for irrigation, they clashed with the fellahin of the village of al-Muzayri'a, who had farmed that land for generations. This episode digs into the Ottoman legal battles, the role of the kaymakam of Jaffa, the emergence of the Palestinian press as a watchdog, and the deeper questions about sovereignty and resource rights that the dispute raised. We explore how the Yarkon River became a flashpoint for competing visions of agriculture, development, and survival—and why this forgotten case still echoes in debates about water rights in Palestine today.
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