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Jordan River

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Jordan River
A river of southwest Asia rising in Syria and flowing about 322 km (200 mi) south through the Sea of Galilee to the northern end of the Dead Sea.
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Noun1.Jordan RiverJordan River - a river in Palestine that empties into the Dead Sea; John the Baptist baptized Jesus in the Jordan
Jordan
Canaan, Holy Land, Promised Land, Palestine - an ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism


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Owing to severe over-pumping of the Jordan River, a sea whose levels remained stable for thousands of years has shrunk by a third.
World Bank's Red Sea-Dead Sea feasibility study ignores the source of ... by Humphries, Isabelle / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
In 1947, the United Nations voted to partition the narrow slice of land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea into Jewish and Palestinian states.
How the Middle East got that way: the seeds of much of the conflict ... by Roberts, Sam / New York Times Upfront
He reported back to his superiors that those alarming tales of settlement growth were standard-issue media exaggeration, a "somewhat distorted picture of reality" In any case, he argued, Kalyah was too far from the highway and the Jordan River to offer the new residents much of a military advantage.
Unsettling: how self-delusion led Israel and America to disastrous ... by Sinderbrand, Rebecca / Washington Monthly
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