Opening book details…
Can I read Israel's Border and Security Problems on EtoBox?
Israel's Border and Security Problems by Moshe Dayan is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Israel's Border and Security Problems about?
Major-General Moshe Dayan SEVEN years after its war of independence the State of Israel still faces a security problem of unusual complexity. The area of the country is only 8,ioo square miles. But owing to the configuration of its territory there are 400 miles of frontier. Three-quarters of the population of Israel lives in the coastal plain, running from north of Haifa to south of Tel Aviv, with a slender salient branching off to Jerusalem. This densely settled area has an average width of no more than twelve miles between the Mediterranean and the Jordanian border. From the Israel Parliament buildings in Jerusalem the armed sentries of the Jor danian Arab Legion can be seen a few hundred yards away. The headquarters of the Israel General Staff in the coastal plain are within clear view from the hills which mark the Jordan frontier. The country's main roads and railways are exposed to swift and easy incursion. Scarcely anywhere in Israel can a man live or work beyond the easy range of enemy fire. Indeed, except in the Negev, no settlement is at a distance of more than 2o miles from an Arab frontier. Thus the term "cfrontier security" has little meaning in the con text of Israel's
Who reads Israel's Border and Security Problems?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Social Sciences.
- Author
- Moshe Dayan
- Published
- 1955
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences