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256 MIDDLE EASTERN NATURAL ENVIRONMENTSFigure 10 The Allon plan (Alpher 1994).Post-1977 Boundary StudiesIn 1977, the right-wing Likud party gained control of the Israeliparliament for the first time. As Israeli Prime Minister MenahemBegin was preparing for negotiations with Egyptian President AnwarSadat, he asked the Water Commissioner at the time, MenachemCantor, to provide him with a map of Israeli water usage from wateroriginating on the West Bank, and to provide guidelines to whereIsrael might relinquish control, if protecting Israel’s water resourceswere the only consideration.Cantor concluded that a “red line” could be drawn beyondwhich Israel should not relinquish control, north to south followingroughly the 100-200m contour line along both “lobes” of the WestBULLETIN 103
WOLF 257Figure 11 West Bank groundwater (Shuval 1992).Bank (see Figure 11). Israeli water planners still refer to this “redline” as a frame of reference (interviews, Golani, October 1991;Shmuel Cantor, December 1991), and it has occasionally been includedin academic boundary studies of the region. This conceptwas later expanded by others to areas of the northern headwatersand the Golan Heights.A brief description of those which mention water as a territorialimperative follows:Cohen’s “Defensible Borders”Cohen (1986) explored “the geopolitics of Israel’s border question,”addressing possible boundary negotiations with a Palestinianpolitical entity over the West Bank and with Syria over the GolanYALE F&ES BULLETIN
Page 1 and 2: WOLF 221Hydrostrategic Decisionmaki
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Page 5 and 6: WOLF 225of international rivers, no
Page 7 and 8: WOLF 227The Zionist PositionThe Zio
Page 9 and 10: WOLF 229Aaronson thought his ideas
Page 11 and 12: WOLF 231Figure 3 Disputed area, Mar
Page 13 and 14: WOLF 233the Upper Jordan and Yarmuk
Page 15 and 16: WOLF 235Figure 4 United Nations pla
Page 17 and 18: WOLF 237develop a series of impound
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Page 21 and 22: WOLF 241Figure 6 Rhodes armistice d
Page 23 and 24: WOLF 243Figure 7 Jordan/Yarmuk rive
Page 25 and 26: WOLF 245resources and to provide fo
Page 27 and 28: WOLF 247water Diversion Plan to pre
Page 29 and 30: WOLF 249• The 1979 Litani Operati
Page 31 and 32: WOLF 251In the taking of the Golan
Page 33 and 34: WOLF 253below which the entire lake
Page 35: WOLF 255string of kibbutzim was est
Page 39 and 40: WOLF 259tion and industrial growth,
Page 41 and 42: WOLF 261the quantity and quality of
Page 43 and 44: WOLF 263Israel-Jordan Treaty of Pea
Page 45 and 46: WOLF 265put a stop to illegal drill
Page 47 and 48: WOLF 267which it had occupied from
Page 49 and 50: WOLF 269protect Israel’s groundwa
Page 51 and 52: WOLF 271Fromkin, D. 1989. A peace t
Page 53: WOLF 273Tonkin, E. 1994. Borderline

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