I've heard a lot about the settlements in the West bank. I've heard that it is really difficult for palestinians to move and travel. I'd recently read "Bury my heart at Wounded Knee" and so I started wondering if there were any similarities between the West bank settlements and North American history.
I decided I needed to see some maps of the settlements, where the new ones are going, where the best land is, access routes, etc. But I can't find any maps! All the maps that I found were pretty incomplete, and the latest was dates 2002. The B'Tselem's Map of Jewish Settlements seemed to be fairly detailed, but it is old and doesn't show the checkpoints and new settlements. I do see the wedge from East Jerusalem to Jericho, which I'm sure has checkpoints everywhere.
Isn't it strange that there aren't better maps available? Given how I'm usuallly able to google things pretty fast, the first 3 pages of google didn't produce the latest results. And how come they are never shown in newspapers/cnn/etc? During the Iraq war and Afghanistan war, there were all these super detailed maps in all the papers and on cnn. I thought it very strange that there doesn't seem to be the latest maps easily findable, considering how we talk about this area of the world all the time.
If somebody could send me an appropriate URI, I'd appreciate it.
I wondered about posting this. I wonder what people will think of my even asking the question: where's the maps? Will that be considered improper? What a strange time to be in from a free speech perspective.