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    gave the example of the “two seas in Palestine.” It’s an excerpt from Bruce Barton’s The Man Nobody Knows. This excerpt describes how full of life and joy the Sea of Galilee is compared to the poisoned Dead Sea. Both of these seas are fed by the River Jordan, but the Sea of Galilee is also as an outlet; it gives whereas the Dead sea only receives. Barton compares this to people and how giving will benefit others as well as yourself, yet there is no reward for being selfish. I always try to give as

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    Water is a finite and limited resource in the Middle East of inestimable value. As such, competition for control of rivers, basins, and valleys with water flow is inevitable. Due to this, long-term peace between Israel and its neighbors, Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon will be partially contingent on the allocation of freshwater. Israel has shown in the past that it will attempt to control and source water with its interest first rather than on the region as a whole. As such, any long-term peace is highly

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    Thesis: Jordan is a country with great complexity that includes location and geography, demography, communication, morale, laws and any other capabilities and habits as acquired by man and woman in the Jordanian society. The land is commonly known for its desert land but the history and the consideration therein when it comes to its people, society, culture, language and power and authority rests on its ancient and preserved sayings from Mohammed. I. Jordan is a land loaded with history.

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    Palestinian – even less. Most acute situation in occurred in the Jordan River basin, which geographically includes parts of the territories of Jordan, Israel , Lebanon, Syria and West Bank of the Jordan river . On this small , in fact, literally on the patch of earth for a long time there is an ongoing dispute between these parties about who has and what is a right for the local water. River of southern Lebanon and Israel The largest Lebanese river flowing through the central and southern parts of the country

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    Case One: The Pope, Jordan, and Religious Tourism pg. 39 For JTB the best target market would be pilgrims from foreign countries, where there would be large amount of Christian pilgrims interested in coming to Jordan to see Jordan River where Jesus was baptized. Targeting Christians in Jordan would be not as effective as in Rome, because in Jordan there are only 4% residents with Christian religion. In my opinion Nayef Fayez should have a wider view on world and target people places where people

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    Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East, though this event had little to no effect on the conflict. In 1920, the San Remo conference largely endorsed the 1916 Anglo-French Sykes–Picot Agreement, allocating to Britain the area of present day Jordan, the

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    Damascus by reinforcing General Allenby’s forces and in the process he demonstrated his innovative leadership. Wanting to advance north against the Turks, Allenby required assistance from the Arabs to attack the Fourth Army of the Turks east of the Jordan River. “To accomplish that, Allenby needed Lawrence, who seemed to be the only person who could get the Arabs to fight in an organized way” (Korda 379). Considering Allenby’s request, Lawrence altered the proposed strategy to have the Arabs attack Ma’an

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    chances of them doing so was very small, almost nothing. The victory for Israel took everyone for surprise, including the Israelis. It seemed as if though it was a miracle. The war all comes down to the Israelis redirecting the water flow from the Jordan River to the Negev Desert. The Arabs clearly didn't like it. This resulted in bombings from Israel to Syria after the the Arabs began threatening and implementing their policy of diverting the water from Israel. Things began to get heated with Israel

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    Israel's Geography Essay

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    (Britannica) The Plain of Esdraelon is the area to the lowland passage between the Mediterranean Coastal areas and the Jordan River Valley. The Great Rift Valley extends from southern Africa to Lebanon. The Negev is a southern Desert region that contains over fifty percent of the total area Israel. Water is a precious commodity is Israel, with its main source coming from the Jordan River, which is the world’s

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    ischemic heart disease, stroke, and peripheral vascular disease), and diminished quality of life3 (WHO, 1999). Jordan is one of the 19 nations of the International diabetes federation MENA region , 415 million individuals have diabetes in the world and more than 35.4 million individuals in the MENA Region; by 2040 this will ascend to 72.1 million, there were 374,100 affected of diabetes in Jordan in 2015, Number of deaths in adults caused by diabetes about 3,075 compared with (20-79 years), ( 4,100

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