Map - West Bank Settlements, Israeli civil and security controlled areas, Palestinian Autonomous areas (A & B)

Three comments about the map:

-note how the Palestinians are separated and restricted from seeing each other across so-called autonomous areas. Welcome to checkpoint city. What word would you use to characterize this separation?

- the white area (Israeli civil and security control) and the settlements appear to cover over 50% of the West Bank

-any viable two-state solution requires that this 50%+ be handed over to the Palestinians in full. Palestinians require the land and resource means to achieve statehood - that requires the West Bank, Gaza, & East Jerusalem be acknowledged as sovereign Palestinian land.

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