MER - MiddleEast.Org - Washington - 23 May: This is the map experts now believe the Israelis are trying to create. By doing so they not only expand considerably beyond the 1967 boundaries but they keep and fortify the bulk of settlements built since '67 and at the same time they institutionalize a novel kind of Middle East militarily-controlled apartheid upon the Palestinians -- a situation unknown anywhere else in the Middle East or indeed in the world.

What this map shows -- projected for Israel's 'unilaterally' determined 'final borders' in 2010 -- is precisely what stated U.S. policies in the past, and all U.N. resolutions over two generations now, have sought to avoid. Yet this has been done, and can only be done, because of the continual flow of unprecendented amounts of financial, military and political/intelligence assistance from the U.S. to the Jewish State.