I just created a photo library folder entitled "WestBank", and placed
a copy of the map created by the Washington Post which appeared in
ther paper on Frbruary 10th. It shows where the Israeli Army proposes
to route the "Berlin Wall" currently being built there. Oddly, it
proposes to create two (maybe three) Palestinian enclaves on the
Israeli side of the wall, to the northwest and southwest of the old
city. They'd be fully walled off from their surroundings.

One of them actually straddles the border of the city limits.

The article the accompanies the maps quotes one Eyal Weizman, who maps
settlement development for a group called B'Tselem. The article
includes this paragraph quoting him: "If Jerusalem were one day to
serve as the Palestinian capital, the Israelis would need to build 40
miles of walls and 20 bridges and tunnels to connect islands of
Palestinian sovereignty to each other, he sai. 'It's nonsensical to
think that international borders can do this kind of gymnastics,' he
said. 'How can you have a Palestinian state without the air over it
and the ground underneath it?'"

Not hard! As we now know from the US-Mexico border bridges and from
the former situation at Steinstuecken, boundaries don't have to extend
very far into the ground and need not include much, if any, airspace.
The Israeli's could actually consider leaving the atmosphere above
Palestinian land as Israeli airspace. That way, the Palestinians
would gain a state - sovereign surface territory on which to live.
Israel would maintain sovereign rights of passage through contiguous
airspace. Air use could be licensed and taxed.

By limiting Palestinian sovereignty to the surface, control over
digging could be exercized, and with that, there would be control over
where construction foundations could be situated. Security would be
assured for all.

Hypothetically yours,

LN in DC