France, the United Kingdom, Canada and Malta announced plans this week to recognize a Palestinian state that does not yet exist.

The Issue: A map in a classroom in Brooklyn that showed Israel labeled as “Palestine.” Just consider: A map of the Middle East with Israel erased (“DOE map zap,” Jan. 14).

Israel’s military has published a map that it says will help civilians in the Gaza Strip reach safe areas if they are ordered to evacuate due to fighting.

The map created by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), which is labelled in Arabic and is zoomable on the military's website, divides the densely-populated, 25-mile-long Gaza Strip into hundreds of ...