PAPERS

The paper presents how the issue of water affects Palestinian-Israeli peace negotiations. It discusses the Israel’s approach and its proposed solutions to water conflict, then the Israeli negotiating tactics. The paper also includes key recommendations on how water conflict can be solved, [...]

Water scarcity in the West Bank represents a critical constraints to further expanding, or even maintaining, present irrigated areas. There is increasing demand for agricultural water use to be restricted in favor of other water consumers, such as local communities and industry. [...]

The paper discusses how settlements are undermining the feasibility of creating a viable, contiguous Palestinian state. It gives a background on the geopolitical situation in Palestine, and then discusses the Israeli policy of land expropriation. In addition, the paper presents the financial [...]

Water is recognized as a nascent source of conflict between Israel and its neighbors especially Palestinians, who are facing an acute water crisis not because of the area’s arid conditions but primarily because of the abnormal political conditions caused by Israel’s control [...]

The paper gives an introduction about the agricultural sector in Palestine and the use of irrigation. It presents the Palestinian System for Environmental Resource Management model (PSERM) and the optimal solutions for this model that depend on profit maximization and cost minimization. [...]

This paper examines the effects of irrigation practices and related activities on the environment and human heath in the West Bank. Irrigated agriculture in the West Bank covers an area of 9,473 ha and utilizes 93 million cubic meters of irrigation water [...]

The Palestinian issue lies at the heart of the Arab – Israeli conflict, which has been going on for decades. The Madrid conference offered a historic opportunity for arriving at a just and lasting peace in the Middle East, based on international [...]