The original blueprint for Israel’s indigenous restoration project in Judea and Samaria was drawn up as beginning in 1977 with the founding of Israel’s Deep State which was tasked with centuries-scale national planning. The underlying plan can be studied through the strategic locations of restored indigenous communities and recurring patterns in the Oslo map.
The Oslo map is essentially politically flexible in the sense that it both prevents and enables the emergence of a Palestinian state, whichever is currently preferred. The archipelago structure of Area A/B islands in a sea of Area C effectively pacified the Palestinians and the Palestinian movement by making them fully dependent on Israel for transportation between Area A/B enclaves while Israel remained in control over all strategic aspects.
The Oslo map is intended to become permanent with some minor modifications. The many enclaves are intended to eventually be connected with each other through territorial intersections as in the 1947 UNGA partition map and the two archipelagos of small islands, one east of Givat Ze’ev and south of the Talmonim bloc and another east of Ariel, including Qalqilyah will be merged into two larger areas. The territorial intersections will mutually optimize both Palestinian and Israeli contiguity and allow unhindered Palestinian transportation across the Palestinian areas without Israeli checkpoints. Most territorial intersections will have four sections – two Palestinian and two Israeli – while some territorial intersections will have six or eight sections – half of them Israeli and half of them Palestinian meeting at different levels across the very same point.
The plan is based on maintaining Israeli strategic military control over Judea and Samaria through East-West corridors and North-South corridors, planned Israeli extraterritorial tunnels under Palestinian areas, planned Palestinian extraterritorial tunnels under Israeli areas as well blocs of restored indigenous communities while simultaneously permitting a contiguous Palestinian state to emerge alongside Israel while Israel maintains overarching strategic control, including control of the airspace and the electromagnetic spectrum. The underlying concept is to maintain Israeli strategic control while allowing Palestinian self-determination in approximately 45% of Judea and Samaria while later offering Palestine to annex the three Palestinian regions (Central Galilee, the ”Triangle” towns bordering Samaria and the Bedouin region of Northeast Negev) of Israel as part of an eventual peace agreement. An interesting aspect is that the plan does not maximize Israeli territorial control but only retains territory that is necessary for maintaining Israeli security. The project has always been promoted to the public as if spearheaded by grassroots activists when in fact it was the result of prior strategic central planning since 1977.
The map is designed primarily for Israel to ensure rapid Israeli victory in any war between Israel and Palestine. Hence has Israel established communities overlooking all Palestinian cities to be able to quickly cut them off in case of war. The strategic purpose of the map is to make sure that the Palestinian state is strategically deterred from launching war or terrorism against Israel as Israel can temporarily end Palestinian territorial contiguity across territorial intersections and close Palestinian extraterritorial tunnels under Israeli territory in times of war.
A war between Israel and the Palestinian state would have calamitous consequences for the Palestinians who would flee Israeli bombardment of terrorist targets in the millions eastward across the Jordan Valley to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. While not expelled to Jordan, no Israeli government would ever allow them to come back. The planners of the map thus prepared for war but were also quite confident that the architecture of the map would deter irredentist war and keep the peace. Importation of foreign troops (e.g. from Pakistan or Malaysia) would be a casus belli for Israel and the Palestinian state would be demilitarized. The Israeli permanent status plan is to apply sovereignty in the approximately 55% of Judea and Samaria while effectively allowing a Palestinian state to emerge in the remaining 45%.
Israel has planned for two and a half Palestinian corridors connecting Palestinian territory with Jordan in the Jordan Valley. In the north the ”half-corridor” connects the Palestinian Nablus-Jenin region with the Bardala Palestinian area in the northern Jordan valley with a planned extraterritorial tunnel continuing to the Jordanian border. The central Palestinian territorial corridor in the Jordan Valley contains the Jiftlik region Palestinian communities and connects Tammun with Jordan. The southern Palestinian territorial corridor starts southeast of the Shilo bloc and runs eastward towards Fasayil where it turns southwards to al-Auja where it is connected with Jordan. The southern extension of the souther corridor is already established in the Oslo map between al-Auja and Jericho and will be extended to connect Jericho with the Betlehem-Hebron region across the Judean Desert. In addition the Bedouin region in Northeastern Negev would be territorially connected with Jordan north of the Dead Sea works and south of the remaining Dead Sea. The Yatir corridor would extend from north of Rahat to the inclusion of Arad, along the shores of the Dead Sea all the way to the community of Naomi east of Jericho. The Central Galilee Palestinian region would have access to the Mediterranean Sea through the old city of Acre. Furthermore, the Halutza dunes have been assigned in Israeli planning for close settlement in skyscrapers of hundreds of thousands or even millions of descendants of Palestinian refugees. The Halutza region would be connected with Gaza and the Bedouin Palestinian region through extraterritorial tunnels and similarly would the the Central Galilee Palestinian region and the Bedouin Palestinian region be connected with the West Bank through extraterritorial tunnels. There would be an extraterritorial tunnel between Gaza and the city of Rahat in the Bedouin region. The ”Triangle” towns would be merged with the West Bank Palestinian areas. All Druze and Christian villages/neighborhoods would be part of Israel.
In East Jerusalem, the southern and northern Palestinian neighborhoods would be part of Palestine while the Old City, Silwan, A-Tur, Ras al-Amud and Sheikh Jarrah neighborhoods would remain part of Israel. Ethnically Christian descendants of Palestinian refugees would possibly be allowed entry into Israel but no one else among descendants of Palestinian refugees would be allowed to settle in Israel but would instead be offered to settle in a major urban area with skyscrapers in the Halutza dunes which are currently part of Israel. All Jewish and partly Jewish communities would be part of Israel.
The result is a fully contiguous Palestinian state without enclaves encompassing most Palestinians in the Western Land of Israel. All parts of the Palestinian state would be contiguous with either Jordan or Egypt with the exception of the Central Galilee which would be connected with the Mediterranean Sea.
Israeli strategic West-East Corridors from north to south:
Upper Galilee corridor
Karmiel corridor
Haifa-Kinneret corridor
Nof Hagalil corridor
Lower Galilee corridor
Hadera-Mehola corridor (with two planned tunnels under Area A)
Kfar Saba-Elon Moreh corridor (with one planned tunnel under Area B)
Kfar Saba-Itamar corridor (with one planned tunnel under Area B)
Ariel corridor (with two openings to the Jordan valley through an 8-section territorial intersection)
Ateret corridor (with two openings to the Jordan valley through a 6-section territorial intersection)
Talmonim-Kokhav Hashachar corridor (with one planned tunnel under Area B)
Givat Ze’ev corridor (with one tunnel under construction)
Jerusalem corridor
Gush Etzion corridor
Adora-Asfar corridor
Yatir corridor
Yeruham corridor
