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Map wars in the Middle East: How cartographers charted and helped shape a regional conflict

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David Rothkopf : Making maps is about making decisions about what to omit and what to include.

He says maps have been used to represent cosmologies, cultures, belief systems and belief systems.

But maps produced in a conflict region, such as Israel and the Palestinian territories, tell a rich story about the relationship between mapmaking and politics, he says.

To map a territory, maps meant to know and control it; to map it, maps also helped create a sense of nationhood.

Maps have played a central role in sporadic efforts to establish peace in the region.

The 1993 Oslo Accords relied on maps to provide the framework for Palestinian self-rule in return for security for Israel .

But for many Israelis , the Oslo vision of a two -state solution has died.

Palestinian experts continue to prepare for governing the territories by mapping them.

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