When Jews made the desert bloom

[MartyNYC]

When the territory Jews called the land of Israel had been under Arab and Muslim control, prior to Israeli statehood, the area was a desolate wasteland, thanks to their neglect and backwardness. Jews renewed the land and made the desert bloom. Even today, much of the Arab world is desert…

New York Times, 1953: “Israeli Land Plan Called A Model” “US soil conservation expert Professor Walter Lowdermilk Says Redemption Program Is Pilot Project For 1,500,000,000 Persons”

“The land redemption work being carried out in Israel is making the country a pilot area for 1,500,000,000 persons living in a subsistence agrarian economy, Prof. Walter Lowdermilk said today.

The United States soil conservation expert expressed the view that in producing little more food than the world populace needed nations were “bedding the ground of social unrest and trouble all over the world.”

“Professor Lowdermilk, a representative of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, assisted in the inventory of all the land in Israel north of a line twenty miles south of Beersheba. He has been here two and one-half years.”

“Because of Israel’s necessity to restore land misused for centuries and because the people have been intelligent enough to recognize that necessity and willing to work, the country has been a pilot area for 1,500,000,000 persons, the professor declared.”

 

[surada]

When the territory Jews called the land of Israel had been under Arab and Muslim control, prior to Israeli statehood, the area was a desolate wasteland, thanks to their neglect and backwardness. Jews renewed the land and made the desert bloom. Even today, much of the Arab world is desert…

New York Times, 1953: “Israeli Land Plan Called A Model” “US soil conservation expert Professor Walter Lowdermilk Says Redemption Program Is Pilot Project For 1,500,000,000 Persons”

“The land redemption work being carried out in Israel is making the country a pilot area for 1,500,000,000 persons living in a subsistence agrarian economy, Prof. Walter Lowdermilk said today.

The United States soil conservation expert expressed the view that in producing little more food than the world populace needed nations were “bedding the ground of social unrest and trouble all over the world.”

“Professor Lowdermilk, a representative of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, assisted in the inventory of all the land in Israel north of a line twenty miles south of Beersheba. He has been here two and one-half years.”

“Because of Israel’s necessity to restore land misused for centuries and because the people have been intelligent enough to recognize that necessity and willing to work, the country has been a pilot area for 1,500,000,000 persons, the professor declared.”


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He didn't foresee the lack of groundwater or the salt water infusion into the coastal aquifer.