The gap in the New Map on Palestine.

Not everybody agrees with Dr. Thomas Barnett's New Map.

New Map, Same Bad Destinations, Karen Kwiatkowski, AntiWar.com, June 7, 2004

Barnett is adamant that barriers must come down, that engagement and integration must happen; he spends several pages explaining that he dislikes the divisiveness of the term "arc of instability." Yet, in the case of Israel, he advocates a wall separating the West Bank and Gaza from Israel, "to keep suicide bombers out while creating a de facto border between the two states, separating a demographically moribund Israel from a youth-bulging Palestine."

I agree. As long as Palestine remains poorly connected to the rest of the world it will remain a threat to American national security.

-HJC