Homeland or Mustard Stain?
"These are cantons! You want me to accept cantons! You want to destroy me!"
- Yasir Arafat in 1995, upon viewing the so-called "swiss cheese map."
"Late one night during the negotiations, my commander took me from the hotel where the talks were taking place to an army base, where he led me to a room with large fluorescent light tables and piles of maps everywhere. He handed me some dried-out markers, unfurled a map I had never seen before, and directed me to trace certain lines and shapes. Just make them clearer, he said. No cartographer was present, no graphic designer weighed in on my choices, and, when I was through, no Gilad Sher reviewed my work. No one knew it mattered."
- Israeli soldier Shari Motro, writing in Legal Affairs about the making of the swiss cheese map, below:
