Agricultural Development in the West Bank (ص 18)
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- Agricultural Development in the West Bank (ص 18)
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i Tuma and
ved from comparable international datay
deri
capital outlay needed
Lion inhabitants at £8.
estinates for rehabilitating a
Drabkin project the
nian state of about 2.8 mill
sition period of five
5 billion
Palesti
ears following
(1975 prices) over a tran y
‘This, they emphasizey
e in Palestine.
1 ig a modest price for
its inception.
reaching justice and peac
Elizabeth Gollard and Rodney Wilson” adopt basically an identical
argunent, but shed more light on the repressive nature of Israel's
economic policies in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Mich of their
essay is devoted to giving ideas on what they conceive as major
projects for stimulating vigorous development in the anticipated
state. According to their projections, the capital outlay required
for this purpose during a transitionary period of five years is in
‘the range of £8000m (#16,000n) which they also consider within
easy reach, should political constraints be removed. Wilson,
and Collard, and Tuma and brabkin believe that it will be
relatively easy to shoulder the economic cost of a Palestinian
state on account of a long-standing comnitnent of parts of the
“Ori conmuni ty to do justice to a dispossessed nation, and in view
The Econoni,
Teiaemeac Potential
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all activities of public research institutions have been either
severely curtailed or altered in ways which would render them
ineffectual in meeting development needs of the territories
themselves. And because of the relatively late emergence of local
universities, the occupied territories had little research done by
local experts throughout the first decade of Israeli occupation.
The late seventies witnessed the emergence of three universities
in the West Bank. Initially, the new universities did little to
meet the mounting research needs in various fields, because they
were too deficient in qualified teaching staff to be able to
initiate and sustain a rigorous research program. Although their
recruitment position has improved over the last two years, research
efforts of West Bank universities are heavily restrained by
opposition from military authorities. Besides forbidding
government staff from releasing any information or data without
prior consent, senior Arab officials are explicitly instructed
Rot to welcome outsiders to their offices for non-routine work.
Not surprisingly, therefore, the contribution of West Bank
universities in this field has been extremely limited and thus far
it is restricted largely to a report on West Bank agriculture
written by the present researcher and published by An-Najah
University in 1979.’ Although it helped to shed some light on
several problems and issues, the said report was brief and lacking
of supportive field research.
Most recently (September 1981) four papers were produced by local
experts and were presented in a seminar on agricultural development
sponsored by the Arab Thought Forum. These papers were by
1. Hisham Awartani, West Bank Agriculture: A New Outlook, (Nablus
An-Najah National University, 1979). - تاريخ
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- Hisham Masoud Awartani
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