Geneva Initiative - Borders Through Maps

Get a feel of what changes may happen if the fence is completed, via borders through maps on JMCC.org

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Wall/Barrier/Fence Map

Here's a diagram of where the wall/barrier/fence is and will be.

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A Jew against the Wall
Israel is cutting itself off from the world and enclosing itself in a ghetto, and not only physically, by Uri Avnery

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post-liberation Baghdad
Its nice to read an Arab write the words "post-liberation Baghdad". by Amir Taheri in the Arab View.

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The Amr can see the future.
Democracy should not be the goal, a representative government should. A U.S. Packaged, one-size-fits-all solutions won’t work; well-researched, homegrown, culturally and socially aware ones will. So, while the intentions might be good (for the U.S. and the world) the methods could lead us into Hell. Ask the Afghanis and Iraqis. By now, they know better. Its time for the Araba to start the ball rolling.
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Adding Arab View, JMCC & Fawaz Turki links to Blog and site.
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There may be a turning of the corner.
Palestinians find themselves, as never before, so leaderless and fragmented, is not to resort to hyperbole. The Palestinian Authority today is broke, in disarray and ineffectual, so much so that a majority of Palestinians, according to the Jerusalem Media and Communication Center, believe the authority effectively no longer exists, and 30 percent say unabashedly that it would be in the “national interest” to abolish it.


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"Geopolitics of Outsourcing"
In the West Bank, three young Palestinian men, (in their 20's), one of whom was studying engineering. Their hero was Yasir Arafat. They talked about having no hope, no jobs and no dignity, and they each nodded when one of them said they were all "suicide bombers in waiting." Compare this to young Indians and Pakistanies' hopes, self-confidence, dignity and optimism that comes from a society knowing it is producing wealth by tapping its own brains.

Is outsourcing good for American, No but its more than just economics. There's also geopolitics involded. It is inevitable in a networked world that our economy is going to shed certain low-wage, low-prestige jobs. To the extent that they go to places like India or Pakistan — where they are viewed as high-wage, high-prestige jobs — we make not only a more prosperous world, but a safer world for our own 20-year-olds.

One more shot for Free trade.

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When will they believe in "Arab on Arab crime"?
The Sunni Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS) condemned the (March 2nd. Karbala and Baghdad) blasts, but also doubt that the attackers were Muslims.
Anybody who kills innocent souls during this occasion is not related to Islam."
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For the first time, Saudi businesswomen participated in the forum in the same room with men – some of them even without the veil. Media reports on the conference featured photos of unveiled women participants, which enraged the Saudi religious establishment. What's next ... peace in the mideast, we can't have that.

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