In that time, sinkholes have swallowed a portion of road, date-palm fields and several buildings ... we pass banana plantations along the Jordan River bank. “The farmers here could be planting ...

As with the budding trees and the mallard ducks skimming onto the Jordan River in front of his hovel ... The detritus sloped down the bank in spots and laced into gray-silted junk in the riverbed.

On the other hand, it’s not really — yet. That specific eastern swath of the West Bank runs alongside the (yep, you guessed it) Jordan River. It would be the first time in decades that Israel ...