What if the West Bank was a tranquil tropical archipelago with ferry routes between Jericho and Ramallah?

What if you could sail around Cape Ramadin, navigate the Kiryat Arba canal, coast through the Gush Etzion Strait, spill out into the Jerusalem Canal and head towards the Israel Sea?

That is the vision of Julien Bousac, who created the map above that reinvents the West Bank as a beautiful archipelago.

(Check the map out in larger. more detailed form over at StrangeMaps, which also does things like the United Statements of America and features The Slaw of the Land, aka the West Virginia Hot Dogs Slaw Mapping Project.)

The map, Bousac said over at StrangeMaps, is meant to be "an illustration of the West Bank’s ongoing fragmentation based on the (originally temporary) A/B/C zoning which came out of the Oslo process, still valid until now. To make things clear, areas ‘under water’ strictly reflect C zones, plus the East Jerusalem area, i.e. areas that have officially remained under full Israeli control and occupation following the Agreements. These include all Israeli settlements and outposts as well as Palestinian populated areas.”

For those who have forgotten their Oslo ABCs, that means that Bousac has transformed anything in the West Bank and Jerusalem area that is still under Israeli control into waterways surrounding areas with some Palestinian control.

The end result leaves you with Palestine's Surreal Fantasy Island...