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agricultural land being lost to urbanization and windblown sands; increasing soil salination below Aswan High Dam; desertification; oil pollution threatening coral reefs, beaches, and marine habitats; other water pollution from agricultural pesticides, raw sewage, and industrial effluents; very limited natural fresh water resources away from the Nile which is the only perennial water source; rapid growth in population overstraining natural resources |
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agricultural land being lost to urbanization? and windblown sand?s; increasing [soil salination]? below [Aswan High Dam]?; desertification; [oil pollution]? threatening [coral reef]?s, beach?es, and marine habitats; other [water pollution]? from agricultural pesticide?s, raw sewage?, and industrial effluents; very limited natural [fresh water]? resources away from the Nile which is the only perennial water source; rapid growth in population overstraining natural resources |
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controls Sinai Peninsula, only land bridge between Africa and remainder of Eastern Hemisphere; controls Suez Canal, shortest sea link between Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea; size, and juxtaposition to Israel, establish its major role in Middle Eastern geopolitics |
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controls Sinai Peninsula, only land bridge between Africa and remainder of Eastern Hemisphere; controls Suez Canal, shortest sea link between Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea; size, and juxtaposition to Israel, establish its major role in Middle Eastern geopolitics |
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