Israel, Jordan and "Making the Desert Bloom."
The San Remo Convention claim is usually made by Arabists (and Jordanian Nationalists) Jordan got the short end of the stick, and has less arable land than Israel. Not only is this not true, but it shows the truth of Israel's miracle. So, lets compare, shall we? Jordan is about 3 times the size of Israel, and 22% of it is Arable land. That is 7,588.9 Square Mile s. Jordan is widely in disrepair and the amount of Arable land has not changed much. Israel is 1/3rd the size of Israel, but 40% of its land is Arable. This was not the original situation; Judea and Samaria and Gaza have arable areas, and in the original "two-state solution" where Israel gets roughly all the land controlled today by it, the PLO and Hamas, Israel had a lot of agricultural land. Still, the British government state in the 1937 White Paper , used to refuse Jewish immigration to Mandate Palestine, the British government claimed only 2 million people could stay alive in the region without mass starvati