I keep flailing the American press for not showing people what East Jerusalem looks like; how far settlements like Gilo and Ramat Shlomo are from the Old City. Well the Times has a pretty good editorial supporting Obama over Netanyahu here, and it is accompanied by a map of East Jerusalem that goes a long way in the direction I want. I wish the wall weren’t indicated by a faint gray line; this conveys nothing of the real sense of the wall. Also it would be good to have photographs of the carving-up of Jerusalem, so you understand what it is like to look at Gilo from the village of Wallajeh just to the southeast, how Gilo towers over the village whose land it is gobbling. Still, it is great that the Times created this map.
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