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To: Sdgla who wrote (189154)	12/9/2006 2:36:15 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 794763

Re Israel and Land/Population compared to the Middle East... Rush said something yesterday that we should think about: Israel is only about 9 miles wide at the narrow part... WHY WOULD ANYONE in their right mind that that this tiny country in the heart of the Middle East, be responsible for every single ill that that entire Region has..... I see by another site that the total population in May 2006 of Israel is just over 7 Million.... squidoo.com Size and Population Israel the 100th smallest country in the world. Israel has less than 1/1000th of the world's population. Median age is 29.6 years. (2006 est.) Birth rate: 17.97 births/1,000 population (2006 est.) Death rate: 6.18 deaths/1,000 population (2006 est.) Infant mortality rate: 6.89 deaths/1,000 live births Percentage of people age 15 and over can read and write (literacy) is 95.4%. Geography Long and narrow in shape, the country is about 290 miles (470 km.) in length and 85 miles (135 km.) in width at its widest point. Israel is a little bigger than New Jersey (the fourth smallest state in the Union). Geographic Coordinates: 31 30 N, 34 45 E Israel has 1,017 km of shared border land. The breakdown is as follows: Egypt 266 km, Gaza Strip 51 km, Jordan 238 km, Lebanon 79 km, Syria 76 km, West Bank 307 km. The Dead Sea, the lowest point on earth at -408 meters, is in Israel. Highest point is Har Meron, at 1,208 meters I learned the seas as follows: Med, Red, Dead, et al. The Mediterranean Sea lies to the west. The Red Sea is an inlet of the Indian Ocean and touches the southern tip of Israel. The Dead Sea, which is actually a lake, is between Israel and Jordan. The Sea of Galilee is also a lake, but it is a freshwater lake, which makes it extremely important in the arid desert climate. The Sea of Galilee is located in the North. Arable land clocks in at a meager 15.45%. Natural resources are timber, potash, copper ore, natural gas, phosphate rock, magnesium bromide, clays, and sand. (From the CIA FactBook.) Environmental and International Agreements: party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands signed, but not ratified: Marine Life Conservation. (From the CIA FactBook.)