Word: esdraelon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jewish strip would include some of the country's richest agricultural land in the valleys of Sharon and Esdraelon, and the coastal plain to which their forefathers aspired from Moses' time down to 100 B.C. (they lost control of it to the Romans some 40 years later). The Arabs would get an enclave around Jaffa; the rest of their share would be mostly hilly pastureland. The British would hold on to Jerusalem and Bethlehem, and to the barren triangle from Beersheba south to the strategic base of Aqaba...
...great canal will carry most of the Jordan-bound water to thirsty lands in the famous Plain of Esdraelon, and along the Mediterranean coast. The rest will irrigate the narrow, hot Jordan valley. But the Jordan itself will not go wholly dry, as it did when Joshua commanded the Israelites in the attack on unfortunate Jericho...
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