The unmaking of the Palestinian nation How did Palestinians end up on a tiny fraction of the land once recognized as theirs? http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/feature/2010/03/16/palestine_history/index.html?source=newsletter

Their statehood and their territory has been taken from them, and they have been left stateless, without citizenship and therefore without basic civil and human rights. The map makes it easy to see this process. The map had to be stigmatized and made taboo.

But even if that marginalization of an image could be accomplished, the squalid reality of Palestinian statelessness would remain, and the children of Gaza would still be being malnourished by the deliberate Israeli policy of blockading civilians. The map just points to a powerful reality; banishing the map does not change that reality.