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Comment author: drethelin 07 September 2015 11:16:34PM 4 points [-]

Israel is far more stable politically and far more wealthy than many of its neighbors.

As far as climate change goes, the geological record shows that global warming would be expected to cause the opposite of a drought, as the hottest times for hundreds of thousands of years coincide with greater rainfall and plant growth.