The West Bank

Population: Dropping.
Located: Unfortunately close to Israel.
Known for: Watch the news pal.

The west bank is a dubious entry in Gravy's World. I use two sources to get my reverse alphabetical order right, well one for the reverse order and the other for a (reasonably) rational appraisal of the place. The first one is the CIA World FactBook, which gives 'facts' from the perspective of the CIA. Truth be told it is all pretty lame stuff. The other is the BBC world guide, which gives a little more information, less numbers. Anyway, the idea of Gravy's World was to never research properly anyway.

So the CIA I use for my reverse alphabetical order, because it has one whereas the BBC lists its countries according to region. Funnily the CIA recognised the West Bank where the BBC did not.

Hoo hoo, ha ha, goddamn funny that.

Anyway, all that I wanted to write was that I was excited to write about the West Bank until I found out that it wasn't the Palestinian territory that had surf. That is the Gaza Strip, which is coming up in a later post.

Of the two, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, I would have thought the West Bank sounded like the more likely possessor of surfable waves.

But it doesn't which would have mildly upset me five years ago, as I formulated an idea, stolen from somewhere else no doubt, that the solution to the problems around there would be to get them surfing together. You know, the Israelis and the Palestinians out the back together, sharing some waves, sharing the stoke.

Obviously that idea was ridiculous, and proves how much of a fuckwit I used to be.