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West Bank

The concrete West Bank barrier curves across hills and built-up areas near Jerusalem, seen from a distance in 2010.
A concrete section of the West Bank barrier near Jerusalem in 2010. Most of the barrier's route is fencing rather than wall. Resized, not cropped.Antoine Taveneaux / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported

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Israel and Palestine: the history each map leaves out

The lines most people recognise mark proposals, armistices, occupation, treaties or temporary military control. Reading them correctly shows how two national movements, unequal power and specific decisions produced the conflict. It also gives us a firmer rule for judging it: no history makes civilians guilty.