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Wegenkaart van Palestina en stadsplan van Jeruzalem

This is a new title for ITMB and the first time a separate map for that portion of the area known as Palestine and controlled by Palestinians has been published. Israel has traditionally been published including the Palestinian-controlled areas, but that also has resulted in the Palestinian portions being reduced in size and importance as a result of the Negev desert areas. Due to the nature of the ill-defined border separating the West Bank and Gaza Strip communities from Israel proper, it is impossible to prepare a map exclusively of the Palestinian-controlled areas without masking out large portions of the map sheet; thus, this map includes a large portion of central Israel and all of Jerusalem, as it makes no sense to show only part of a geographic area without showing the entire physical area.
Jerusalem has been shown as an entity, without a border, in order to emphasize its importance as a unifying point of three great religions. Barricades do exist within the city, but these exist mostly to prevent clashes and reduce frictions, and we prefer to concentrate our hopes for Jerusalem as a future symbol of unity. Geographically, to fit both the southerly Gaza Strip area and the northerly West Bank portion together, it has been necessary to include large portions of Israel proper. The border has been shown for purposes of illustration only and in a generalized manner to represent reality and is not intended to indicate what would normally be a properly-defined border between nation states.

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