Interactive Map of Possible Israel-Palestine Land Swaps

Via the Washington Institute:  Imagining the Israeli-Palestinian Border.

Of use for trying to understanding what is being discussed.

Plus, maps are cool.

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Comments

  1. Southern Hoosier says:

    Totally unworkable without a lot of bloodshed and ethnic cleansing

  2. Southern Hoosier says:

    Plus, maps are cool.

    Yeah.

    Hitler could play with maps all day and still not have a clue as to what was going on. How many disaster have we had in the world, because of people drawing arbitrary lines on maps and not having a clue what the real world is like,

  3. How many disaster have we had in the world, because of people drawing arbitrary lines on maps and not having a clue what the real world is like

    Oh, the irony.

  4. John Burgess says:

    SH: The people drawihng these maps are far from clueless bureaucrats diddling around from a thousand miles away. That they’re being proffered by the Washington Institute–a pro-Israeli organization–should further suggest the legitimacy of their origin.

    Israel is going to have to give up land. The Palestinians are going to have to give up an actual ‘right of return’. Jerusalem is going to have to be re-split. If not, then welcome to another half-century of needless bloodshed on both sides of the borders.

  5. @John:

    Call me crazy, but I don’t think SH is interested in actual knowledge or dialog.

  6. Jay Tea says:

    I’ll have to check them out and see just how the Palestinians’ territory will be “contiguous,” as Obama promised. Connecting the West Bank and Gaza ain’t gonna be pretty…

    J.

  7. michael reynolds says:

    It’s contiguous within the West Bank, not between West Bank and Gaza.

  8. Dave Schuler says:

    Without hydrological information the map is less useful than it might be. Not all of the land is equal.

  9. Tano says:

    You mean they are envisioning a solution based on the 67 borders with swaps???

  10. Jay Tea says:

    Michael, you got a source for that, or are you just projecting your own thoughts on to Obama’s statement?

    J.

  11. Southern Hoosier says:

    Jerusalem is going to have to be re-split. If not, then welcome to another half-century of needless bloodshed on both sides of the borders

    The Jews will no more give up East Jerusalem than the Catholics would give up the Vatican.

  12. Southern Hoosier says:

    John Burgess says:
    Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 20:28

    SH: The people drawihng these maps are far from clueless bureaucrats diddling around from a thousand miles away. That they’re being proffered by the Washington Institute–a pro-Israeli organization–should further suggest the legitimacy of their origin.

    That I agree with, But we have already seen Obama has his own ideas of what the Middle East should look like. Israel would be better off to wait till Obama is out of office before working on peace. I don’t think Obama is going to take the public lecture by Netanyahu in good spirits.

  13. Southern Hoosier says:

    What ever happened to Clinton’s Mid-East peace plans? I thought it was workable till Arafat walked off.

  14. Jay Tea says:

    SH, you answered your own question. Arafat walked off precisely because it was workable. Can’t let the perpetual grievances end, after all…

    J.

  15. Southern Hoosier says:

    @Jay Tea
    OK if your so damn smart answer me this question. Beginning with the Truman, all presidents have had a try at Middle East peace, right?

    In the almost 63 years, has there ever been a formal peace agreement that was accepted by the Palestinians, and rejected by Israel?

  16. MSS says:

    On the theme of “primers” I highly recommend Yaacov Lozowick’s series of photo essays called “Don’t divide Jerusalem” (whether or not one agrees with his conclusion).
    http://yaacovlozowick.blogspot.com/p/dont-divide-jerusalem.html

    Also his recent post “The 1967 Line”
    http://yaacovlozowick.blogspot.com/2011/05/1967-line.html