Sprawl And Human Rights

The author of the article called "Lay of the Land" looks at a map of the West Bank created by Israeli architect Eyal Weizman at the request of a human rights group called B'tselem. According to the author, "The resulting map starkly documents how the settlement of a mere two percent of the West Bank has cut the territory into a meaningless patchwork of isolated enclaves. According to the architect: "It was very clearly stated in the master plans for the whole West Bank that you need to bisect the area, to put wedges in between the Palestinian cities to shrink their economy and create forced emigration. The other thing was not to allow the formation of a Palestinian state, not to allow contiguity between the enclaves."

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