Things that make you go
hmmm - maps of the Middle East.
The first
problem: When Arabs describe Palestine, they talk about only what is now
Israel. Historical Palestine included what is now Israel (17.8%),
the West Bank, Gaza (5.3% together) and Jordan (76.9%). For more
about the great Palestine lie, go to Wikipedia and Masada
2000.
The first two are maps of
the entire Middle East. Israel makes up
0.15% of the
entire Middle East land mass. Yes, if there was 200 units of land in
the Middle East, Israel would have ONE of them. I believe that of
all these countries, Israel only has warm peace with Turkey (as opposed to
the cold peace with Egypt and Jordan).
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Not all of the Middle
East is considered to be the Arab world. This map shows how Arab
lands dwarf Israel.
This is a map of
Israel, as per
the "Palestinian National Authority
State Information Service". Must be a shock to those who
don't believe that the ultimate goal of the Palestinians is to capture
what is today's Israel... The PNA website above has since added the text
"Historical Map of Palestine" - an image of their original site
can be found here. Interestingly enough, this
map was only so for less than 2 years, since Lebanon
declared independence in 1943, Syria
declared independence in 1946 and Jordan
declared independence in 1946. Of course, Palestine
was never a sovereign entity. Thus, one can hardly say this was a
"historical map" - it is obviously what they'd like to see in
the future.
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Millions of Palestinian refugees
are still sitting in camps 50 years after they left their houses in Israel
due to the invasion of the Arab countries, which promised the Palestinians
would get their land back and more. In contrast, look at the number
of Jews coming from the Arab world that were absorbed lovingly into
Israel.
A couple of other maps of the
Middle East area, for reference.
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