Another Map Disproving E-1 Contiguity Claims

By Published On: December 5, 2012

A few days ago, we posted a map demonstrating that Israeli development in the so-called E-1 corridor between Ma’aleh Adumim and Jerusalem doesn’t preclude a contiguous Palestinian state in the West Bank — certainly no more than a Palestinian state in the West Bank would make Israel itself noncontiguous.

Below is another map showing the same thing. This map was drawn up by Dennis Ross, Bill Clinton’s chief negotiator during the Camp David peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders, for Ross’s book The Missing Peace. The map represents Clinton’s peace proposal, which was rejected by Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat.

The map clearly shows the E-1 area under Israeli control and a contiguous Palestinian state in the West Bank.

So although Thomas Friedman and Maureen Dowd in today’s New York Times both repeat the mantra that Israeli building would (in Friedman’s words) “sever any possibility of a contiguous Palestinian state,” this is simply not true. The development of E-1 might impact Palestinian demands about the contours of a future state. It might impact the sides’ conflicting claims on Jerusalem. But whatever the pros and cons, it does not prevent a contiguous Palestinian state, and it certainly does not prevent a viable Palestinian state.

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A map illustrating President Clinton’s proposals at Camp David, from Dennis Ross’s The Missing Peace.

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