Below is the new map from Visualizing Palestine. This simple bus map shows how connected both sides of the green line actually are. From the map it’s clear the path of the separation wall is meant as an annexation line and the bus routes clearly delineate how the the Israeli-only roads in the occupied territories are used to seamlessly connect the settlements with Israeli cities west of the wall. A few weeks ago Michael Freund celebrated the settlement enterprise in the Jerusalem Post by exclaiming, “kiss the Green Line goodbye.” This map shows you why.
Sam Bahour comments on the Visualizing Palestine site how the map also implicates the Israeli government:
Speaks volumes about how the settlement enterprise thrives from Israeli state services…settlement products are one thing, but Israeli services to settlements are the EXACT same thing!
(Click on the image below to view it larger.)
Apartheid is when Jews in the West Bank have buses to Jerusalem and non Jews are not even allowed into Jerusalem.
There is some great graphic and video work coming out of Palestine these days.
connect the settlements with Israeli cities west of the wall
I think that should read: “… with Israel cities west of the green line” (or: cities within Israel proper).
the Israeli government and the settlers are one. There is no point in trying to boycott the settlements alone- Israel itself has to be hit. It is the whole Zionist machine that is the issue. It is something as banal as bus routes that exposes the sham.
They hide behind the fear goys have of being labelled antisemites and they have to be exposed.
In an ideal world it would be the Jewish diaspora doing this but of course they won’t.
Great visuals posted here recently. They are incredibly powerful in opening people’s eyes in a way that even the most impassioned rhetoric is incapable of.
“Kiss the Green Line Goodbye”? The hypocrisy just makes me so angry. Here they are, telling Gentile audiences that Israel wants a two-state solution, will give the Palestinians the West Bank and Gaza the minute they stop launching homemade rockets, and then to Jewish audiences they admit that’s never going to happen and all but laugh about how gullible we are in believing their lies.