This research is designed to investigate the status of tourism in the parks of Wade Al‐Badan, which is located near the city of Nablus, in the West Bank, during the period of political transition. Socio‐economic, behavioral and spatial variables of visitors are examined and compared. The on‐site survey was conducted on the last Friday of July 2000, starting at 1.00 p.m. and ending at 7.00 p.m. The results indicate that the majority of the visitors came from the West Bank. The findings suggest that tourism will be a major economic sector in Palestine, which lacks tourism facilities. Better spatial management of attractive tourism sites is also needed, but the Israeli security policies create barriers against the execution of Palestinian development plans. This study also reveals that it has managerial and policy implications in terms of preparation for growth and tourism promotion.

Linear regression and moving averages were used to analyze the patterns of rainfall in eight station in the district of Ramallah and Al-Bireh for the period from 1950's to present. Data analysis showed that a ten years period variability of rainfall but with consistency. It also showed that rainfall in the studied area is not decreasing as mentioned in several previous studies. This area is mountainous and enjoys the Mediterranean climates.

Th is paper addresses the socio-spatial impact of the Zionists' colonial project in Palestine, including the replacement of the indigenous Palestinian people by Jewish immigrants. At present, the Palestinians, displaced or living in the remaining part of Palestinian lands number approximately ten million. Th e continuous Israeli occupation has failed to bring stability or prosperity to either the region or the Israeli and Palestinian peoples. Projections indicate that demographic changes will transform the current situation into an apartheid system, where the majority Palestinians will be ruled by an Israeli minority. Th e objective of this paper is to suggest a just solution for the Palestinian-Israeli impasse in advocating the establishment a one-state solution, a proposition which appears to be gaining increasing support.

This article investigates the spatial transformation of the holy city of Jerusalem from 1967 to present. Since the middle of nineteenth century, new foreign Jewish and other immigrants played a great role in changing the traditional landscape of this holy city. At present, this holy city is being transformed into segregated neighborhoods. New mega urban projects are being constructed regardless of the holiness of the place, in order to change its identity as well as its demographic balance. Only just and lasting peace between Palestinians and Israelis is the only guarantee to keep Jerusalem’s traditional landscape in place and at the same it may be modernized.

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