In the United States you cannot find a map, (which is the most important thing of course, check in Canada, see if you can find a map. You go to Israel, you can find a map) you go to scholarly sources, you can find a map: Heres what you find when you look at a map: You find that this generous, magnanimous proposal provided Israel with a salient east of Jerusalem, which was established primarily by the Labor government, in order to bisect the West Bank. That salient goes almost to Jericho, breaks the West Bank into two cantons, then theres a second salient to the North, going to the Israeli settlement of Ariel, which bisects the Northern part into two cantons. So, weve got three cantons in the West Bank, virtually separated. All three of them are separated from a small area of East Jerusalem which is the center of Palestinian commercial and cultural life and of communications. So you have four cantons, all separated from the West, from Gaza, so thats five cantons, all surrounded by Israeli settlements, infrastructure, development and so on, which also incidentally guarantee Israel control of the water resources. This does not rise to the level of South Africa 40 years ago when South Africa established the Bantustans. Thats the generous, magnanimous offer. And theres a good reason why maps werent shown. Because as soon as you look at a map, you see it. informationclearinghouse.info/article14120.htm
Posted on: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 12:55:50 +0000