... . In the west there is a rainy season November to April witch dose provide limited fresh water but due to deforestation, overgrazing, soil erosion, and desertification it is forever changing Jordan natural landscape. Jordan's population form in 2001 is a little over five million and the life expectancy of a Jordanian being 77 years in average. The ethnic majority is 98% Arab all officially Arabic ... 80-member witch is elected by popular vote on the basis of proportional representation. All members of the National Assembly and the house of representative all serve four-year terms. Jordan...

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... , headed by Yasser Arafat (discussed below), which began military operations against Israel on Jan. 1, 1965, with an attack on the Israeli national water carrier project to transfer water from the Jordan River to the south of Israel. Although little more than pinpricks to the Israelis, these attacks were effective armed propaganda in the Palestinians' political offensive to force the Arab regimes ... al-Nasser, to practice what they preached regarding Palestine. The first target chosen by Fatah was especially symbolic, since none of the Arab summit meetings called to deal with Israel's Jo...

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... be refuted so narcissistically in presence of the facts (Cole 1)? A dilemma, which many believers see, is to whom Abraham entitled Palestine to. However, Palestinians first resided east of the Jordan River until political outbreak and war forced families to travel across the river into current Israel. These families either faced death or injury or took a chance and crossed the river ... ) oppression brought upon Zionist movements "merely self-defense. Long-gone, anger-harboring thoughts prominently plague the perpetuation of peace; even when the first "Palestine- was located in the Jordan...

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... and the Mediterranean Sea in Asia. Palestine territories include the Gaza Strip, West Bank, and parts of modern Israel. This region has a strategic location between Jordan in the east, Lebanon and part of modern Israel to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the west, and Negev and Gulf of Aqaba to the South. Syria, Egypt, and ... mandate, into Jewish and Arab states. Six months later the British withdrew, and on May 14, 1948, the state of Israel was established. The neighboring Arab states of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, and Iraq rejected both the partition of Palestine and the exist...

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... half of the city was under Jordanian control until the 1967 war, when it resulted in the city becoming a whole after Israel drove Jordan out of the West Bank (CNN). The Palestinians have always related to Jerusalem as the capital of their future state (CNN). They want ... absorbed as citizens in countries across the Mideast, but even 50 years later 1.1 million Palestinians still live in refugee camps in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and the Palestinian territories and 2.5 million Palestinians are registered as refugees (CNN). Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat insists on the right of...

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... in exile. On May 15, 1948, the British evacuated Palestine, and Zionist leaders proclaimed the state of Israel. Neighboring Arab states (Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Iraq) then invaded Israel claiming that they sought to "save" Palestine from the Zionists. In fact, the Arab rulers had territorial designs on ... as Palestine was now divided into three parts, each under separate political control. The State of Israel encompassed over 77 percent of the territory. Jordan occupied East Jerusalem and the hill country of central Palestine (the West Bank). Egypt took control of the coastal plain aro...

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... Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) provides a wide variety of assistance to the Palestinians. It provides education, health, and relief services to 3.9 million registered Palestine refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and the West Bank and Gaza Strip. • The UNRWA educational services currently include both general and higher education as well as vocational, technical and teacher education. The ... ...

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... plan, and the Arabs rejected it. As the British began to withdraw early in 1948, Arabs and Jews prepared for war. Soon Israel was proclaimed at Tel Aviv. Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, and Iraq invaded Israel, as most Palestinian Arabs were driven from Jewish territory. By the time armistice agreements were reached, Israel had increased its holdings by about one-half ... ...

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