Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 562)

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Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 562)

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preclude Palestinian farmers from drilling deeper wells to
tap the aquifer system at a corresponding depth to local
Israeli wells. Moreover, the controls the authorities impose
on Palestinian peasants are not applied in equal measure to
resident Israeli farmers in kibbutzim and moshavim. These
Israeli farmers in the Jordan Valley have an unrestricted
supply of water from the twenty Israeli bore wells in the
region which pump some 15-17 mcm. of water per year.(11) The
constant availability of pure (low saline level) water allows
Israeli farmers to adopt a wider variety of cropping patterns
than those available to Palestinian farmers. The control over
water quite clearly is discriminatory and the water
shortages cannot be reduced to natural climatic conditions.
It is in fact linked to the larger Zionist project of
colonisation and Judaization of the Jordan Valley.
In a situation of water shortage one would think it would be
to the advantage of Palestinian peasant farmers to have a
regular system of storage for water which could then be used
for agricultural purposes. However, the development of water
storage facilities for agricultural purposes is generally
undeveloped. The bulk of farmers (77%) do not have any means
of storing excess water (see Table 5). This does not
present a problem for those who get their water from bore
holes since this water is officially restricted in any case.
It does however present a problem to those farmers who get
their water supply from the al Fara'a canal and natural
springs, since the farmers who use canal water get their
water supply by the hour and will often receive more water
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Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production

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Alex Pollock

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