Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 552)

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Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 552)

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problem", have consistently emphasised that land as well as
water would be excluded from any limited political autonomy
which Palestinians might be allowed to exercise over their
own civil society under such a solution.
In an interview with Sarah Graham-Brown in 1979, the Israeli
water commissioner, Meir Ben Meir, stated quite unequivocally
the strategic and economic importance of continued Israeli
control over the West Bank aquifer system. He reported to
Graham-Brown that by 1985, according to existing computations
"... Israel would have a considerable water deficit and could
not do without the West Bank aquifer".(1) He suggested that
the only alternative would be for Israel to develop expensive
technological and technically difficult desalination
programmes which would raise the costs of Israeli
agricultural products and thus make Israeli agriculture less
competitive with Palestinian products in the West Bank market
and with foreign competitors in the international market. It
would also probably lead to significant price rises of
Israeli agricultural produce in the home market. (2)
The Israeli state has persistently, as part of the overall
strategy of Judaisation and colonisation, refused to allow
Palestinian peasant farmers - with few exceptions - to tap
new sources of water supply.(3) The colonisation process does
not just deal with colonisation of land but is also linked to
the colonisation and exploitation of limited ground water
resources. In the Jordan Valley increasing Israeli
exploitation of ground water resources at the expense of
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