Agricultural Development in the West Bank (ص 23)
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- Agricultural Development in the West Bank (ص 23)
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Evidently, the location of the West Bank entails several economic
difficulties and political hazards which will have to be tackled
LEBANON by any future Palestinian state consisting of the West Bank and
Gaza Strip. On one side the two territories are separated by
over 60 kilometers of "Israeli" land, while on the other, Jordan
lies as the only gateway for their vital connections with the rest
GOLAN
HIGHTS of the Middle East, The political implications of both facts
are significant.
Area
The total land area of mandatory Palestine was 26,192 square
kilometers. The United Nations Resolution No 181 of 1947 demanded
MEDITERRANEAN
a the partition of that area into two political entities, one Arab
‘occupying 43%, and the other Jewish occupying 56.54 of the total area.*
Wablus
However, Israel was able to occupy a wider area during the course
WEST BANK
of the 1948 war. Several months later, Israel was able to reach
an agreement with Jordan, which was then the "custodian" of West
Bank land and people, whereby the former stripped the West Bank
of all its remaining coastal plains, estimated at an area of
480'ka? , thie stan surrendered in’ ete process wes'en’ sich in
water resources and of such a topography that it would have
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increased irrigated farming in the West Bank by four times had it
not been lost. Instead, it was left with a strikingly mountainous
topography which, as we shall see later, may prove to be the mst
Serious constraint for the development of West Bank agriculture.
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1. This agreement was reached in the famous Armistice Treaty
between the two governments in 1949 on the island of Rhodes.
Ecyver Negey
* The rest was to be left under U N mandate. - تاريخ
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- المنشئ
- Hisham Masoud Awartani
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