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When travelling from Jerusalem to anywhere in the northern West Bank, most people will pass the notorious Qalandiya checkpoint. Maybe you made the trip yourself? On the Jerusalem side there is a curious expanse of concrete which would puzzle anyone new to the area. In a land were territory is always hotly contested it may […]
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The notorious, massive Qalandiya checkpoint lies in the center area surrounded by three roundabouts. Qalandiya is the scene of relentless ethnic control, murders by the IDF, violently suppressed protests, and a major cause of the impossibility of normal civilian life and movement. On GoogleMaps, the checkpoint does not exist. – by Tom Suàrez, of Mondoweiss […]
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Click here for more information about Israel’s segregated roads. Palestinian road snaking through a tunnel under route 443 The drive along route 443 became a little more interesting during the past month. Until recently Palestinian were barred from the road and could only traverse it through tunnels underneath. However the Israeli high court decreed in […]
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Fred SchlomkaIsraeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has said that “Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the Jewish people, a city reunified so as never again to be divided”. Nothing could be further from the truth. Jerusalem today is a city dissected by walls and fences, divided by race, religion and ethnicity, and traumatized by home demolitions, […]
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by Fred Schlomka – The original version of this article was published in the Los Angeles Jewish Observer © Foundation for Middle East PeaceDownload Map Despite the new White House administration’s adamant refusal to accept any more settlement construction President Obama has allowed USAID to continue funding the segregated road network that links the settlements […]
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Both the New York Times and the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz published articles recently touting an economic revival in the West Bank, Nablus in particular. In ‘Signs of Hope Emerge in the West Bank‘, Ethan Bronner writes that the opening of movie theaters and deployment US-trained police are creating conditions of calm and optimism. However despite […]
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➞ Back to Index of Maps. This sequence of maps takes you through the development of the political geography of the region. You can download individual maps or download the complete package of maps which includes all the maps below plus an additional 9 maps. This is a 10.5 MB file so it may take […]
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Fred Schlomka August 2008As the eyes of the world are on the Liberty Ships approaching Gaza, a massive segregated road project in the Greater Jerusalem area is quietly approaching completion. Israel is about to unveil the realization of former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s dream of Palestinian ‘transportational contiguity’, in lieu of contiguous territory. Route 1, […]
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