Contiguous ambiguous

In his Al Arabiya interview, Obama used the word "contiguous" to describe a functioning Palestinian state. Saif Ammous calls the plan, "a kidney shaped state with Gaza on the side." Doug Suisman has done a Rand study purporting to show how integrated the kidney and the Gaza can be in a way I find faintly unbelievable at this stage. Today Sandy Tolan has a great piece in TomDispatch raising this issue concretely: What is contiguity when there are 675 checkpoints in a territory the size of Delaware and you can't even reach the capital? One-state is crowding the discourse in ways Tony Judt never anticipated.                             (Phil Weiss)