What is the government worried about in terms of what the maps revealed?
Well, the expansion of settlements is guarded almost like a military secret. So it was less a question of the identification of the settlements as they are than the projections of what the settlements will turn into? Exactly. This is a map of a possible future of the settlements and of the West Bank. What general conclusions did you draw from the map when you actually saw it, either ideologically or in terms of planning issues? Most other maps of the West Bank show the settlements as points. They show the location, perhaps the number of settlers in them. But by actually showing form, we were trying to make a connection between the very organization of matter across the landscape and human rights violations. So it’s not only the fact that settlements are there, but it is the forms of the settlements—their shape, and size—that are contrary to human rights. For example, if you look at Ariel, which is an urban settlement located west of Nablus, it has an elongated banana shape. This is som
