The geopolitical dimension of "Israel" in the issue of the "Renaissance Dam" is highlighted through the origin of the idea, which dates back to the era of the sixties, as the dam was the result of a study conducted by the US administration in favor of its ally "Israel", after Egypt president Gamal Abdel Nasser headed to Building the "High Dam".
During that period, the American Agricultural Reclamation Office carried out several studies between 1956-1964, before identifying 26 sites for the construction of dams in Ethiopia, the most important of which are 4 dams on the main blue Nile, namely: “Karadobe, Mabel, Mandia, and the Border Dam (Actual Renaissance)” In addition to the agricultural lands that will be reclaimed after the construction of dams. The American studies came in the wake of the official agreement signed by Washington with the Addis Ababa authorities in 1957, accompanied by an Ethiopian refusal to offer Nasser to form a joint technical body for the Nile River countries.
"Israel" seeks to make Ethiopia a passage for it towards Africa, and a strategic outlet that will allow it to open political, security and military channels in the Horn of Africa that will be supportive in its ongoing conflict in the region through its cooperation with the states of Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti, and this has been strengthened through developments in the Red Sea region and Especially in Yemen.
Hence.."Israel" is present at this "Renaissance Dam".. and confirmed:
“We will support Ethiopia technology to benefit from its water resources,” this is what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said to the Ethiopian parliament in July 2016 during his visit to Addis Ababa.
Netanyahu's words were considered clear support for Addis Ababa regarding the issue of its dispute with Egypt regarding the "Renaissance Dam", especially since it coincided with the opening of the first phase of the dam by the Ethiopian authorities on the waters of the Blue Nile in the same month of his visit .
Israeli statements in support of Ethiopia followed, as Deputy Director-General for African Affairs at the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Einat Shilin, announced in December 2019 that Tel Aviv was ready to "share its vast experience in water management" with Addis Ababa.
Prior to that, the Israeli ambassador to Ethiopia, Rafael Morav, announced that "Israel" is working to introduce a modern irrigation system in Ethiopia.
In addition to political support, the Israeli "Debka" website revealed in July 2019 that "Israel" has completed the deployment of the Israeli "Spyder-MR" missile system near the "Renaissance Dam".
Although the Israeli authorities denied this information, the former Ethiopian ambassador to "Israel" Hilawi Yusuf, spoke about the acquisition of contracts for the management of power stations in Ethiopia, including the "Renaissance Dam" station, by an Israeli company. Youssef stressed that "Israel" has 240 investors working in Ethiopia in the areas of irrigation, electricity and water, in addition to implementing huge irrigation projects through Ethiopian water after the completion of the dam's construction, in parallel with financing 200 million dollars to develop irrigation systems.
This indicates, according to many data, that the negotiation mechanism followed by Ethiopia with Egypt was established by a negotiating team in the Israeli Foreign Ministry, including former Foreign Minister Shaul Mofaz, and David Kamehi, a former agent of the Israeli intelligence "Mossad." The Israeli government also opened a "public subscription" at the Central Bank of Israel to collect donations directed to bonds and bills to serve the "Renaissance Dam" project, leading to the Ethiopian government recruiting many Israeli experts and technicians to work in the stages of experimentation and implementation throughout the second phase. At a time when the former Sudanese Undersecretary of Irrigation, Haider Youssef, revealed that there is an entire floor in the Ethiopian Ministry of Water for Israeli water experts.
Israeli aims:
During the past decades, "Israel" failed to impose its projects to take advantage of the waters of the Nile River, in the face of the repeated Egyptian refusal to do so, despite what was announced by Sadat, whose statements regarding the delivery of "Nile waters" to occupied Palestine collided with a large political and popular opposition that led him to abandon the idea, which President Hosni Mubarak continued, and after that President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi.
Israel is moving within the principle of maximum pressure on Egypt in order to push it politically and economically, to return to the projects of transferring “Nile waters” towards the settlements and occupied cities in Palestine, through its direct intervention in the issue of the “Renaissance Dam” and affecting its negative repercussions against Egypt and its water and political security. . Through this, Tel Aviv seeks to push towards recognition of it primarily as a Middle Eastern "state", and as a party concerned with the waters of the Nile River, from the Ethiopian portal, what it sees as a "right" to benefit from the river's water.
While some Israeli circles believe that the "Renaissance Dam" hinders the flow of Nile waters towards occupied Palestine through Egyptian territory at a later time if Egypt acquiesces to pressure, the strong and supportive Israeli presence in Ethiopia on this file indicates otherwise. As Tel Aviv now controls a large percentage of water and electrical projects in Ethiopia (from the source countries), which will make it control at a later stage the flow of the Nile water, from the source to the estuary, while ensuring that Egypt gets a certain percentage, provided that it is among the " The estuary, "meaning that Israel requires that water be reached by it, in exchange for permission to reach Egypt, through its partnership with Ethiopia in "The Ethiopian Bank for the Export of the Blue Nile Water ".
What strengthened those doubts is that Egypt built 6 huge unannounced tunnels in the Sinai, according to the British Middle East Observer website in 2016, suggesting that it aims to maybe "deliver the waters of the Nile to Israel." The British website indicated that "the Egyptian government announced that it will build 3 tunnels for cars and one tunnel for trains, but it has not announced anything about six other tunnels that are being worked on."