Thus, the Israeli withdrawal will establish Palestinian Authority territorialcontiguity in the West Bank by geographically connecting all Palestinian-controlled areas in the West Bank.
But the map showed the usual archipelago of islets in the north and south of the West Bank, with no territorialcontiguity between them, and none of them anywhere near Jerusalem.
The expressed purpose of these racist policies has been to prevent territorialcontiguity between Syrian, Iraqi and Turkish Kurds and to "Arabize" Syrian Kurdistan where most of Syria's oil deposits are located.
If this is truly Mr Barak's final offer, it would leave a Palestinian state made up of two Gaza-like cantons north and south of Jerusalem, but with no territorialcontiguity between them and no access to the border with Jordan.