Irrigation
Sir,—The date, October, 1945. The leave train from Cairo to Jerusalem had thrust through the Might; and now the bright dawn came as we chuffed our way among green groves, now producing the famous Jaffa oranges. A few years before the land had been burned-up desert. At 7 o’clock we were to stop for ablutions and breakfast at Gaza. As we slowed into the station there was the name, Gasa. I was being transported back into history; 4000 years. Later, I went to Damascus, a city famous in the time of Abraham. But this letter is headed “Irrigation.” Jewish engineers had brought water from the lake of Galilee, many hundreds of feet below sea level, more than 200 miles to the Gaza Strip, making the barren earth to blossom and bear fruit. What is wrong with employing a few Israeli experts to show us how to bring water from the oftenflooded west to the droughtprone areas of the east? They would do it. — Yours, etc., H. W. BLICK. May 29, 1989.
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