The shrinking map of Palestine
By Haitham Sabbah • May 10th, 2006 at 18:17 • Category: Maps, Palestine
Haitham Sabbah is an uprooted Palestinian blogger. He is the webmaster and editor of Palestine Blogs, also webmaster and co-editor of Palestine Think Tank. His personal blog is Sabbah's Blog: http://sabbah.biz/
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This is in general a good map… however…
I do have reservations regarding the 1917 and 1947 maps (first two ones) which include the city of “Tel Aviv” as a main city. In 1917 and 1947, there was no Israel and Jews were a small minority of the population living in Palestine. If a dominant city were to be placed on this map and, it should be Yafa (Jaffa in Hebrew) which was thousands of years old and a much bigger city/port than Tel Aviv was. Tel Aviv basically was one of the first Zionist settlements in the area established in 1909 around the outskirts of Yafa to later become an important city when the state of Israel itself was established through theft and occupation of Arab territory. In 1917 and in 1947, Yafa was by far much more important than Tel Aviv and including “Tel Aviv” in those first two maps, somehow legitimizes foreign Zionist claims to Arab land and discredits the Arab identity of the region. Why ever would the author of this map include tiny Zionist Tel Aviv at the time and exclude huge Yafa?? Why doesn’t Http://Palestinethinktank.com draw attention to this fact? Why would Tel Aviv be included when much bigger and more important cities existed… if not only to assert the “Jewishness” of Palestine in days where there was no such a thing. Arab Jews existed, but they were a minority living happily like other minorities. Including Tel Aviv on the first 2 maps is incorrect.
This map appeared in the London Times on May 5th 2006. Maybe this explains why Tel Aviv is included. After all, it is the British Empire which gave away a whole chuck of Arab Land to the Jews for the establishment of the Jewish state. Did they have the right to do so? They didn’t. They themselves were occupiers in Palestine.
I used to argue from time to time with fundamentalist Christians who had been fed the lie that no one lived in Palestine until the Jews "returned" to claim it. I finally stopped arguing with them when I realized that they would not listen to reason, nor would they look objectively at historical facts. They only wanted to believe the fairy tales of Israel so that they could reinforce belief in their own superstition.
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in the first place i have to say that thank goodness that i could contact with u i have to say that there is a big germ witch is ISRAEL …..u have to remove it my brothers ………………I'm LIBYAN forever.
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Thank u for ur words that i found them written well….LIBYAN forever…………
To well is to can my brothers………..
@James Smith – @James Smith -
The problem here is there are Christians who follow Tradition in the Fallen churches and there are Real Christians few mind you! it is the same with the Jews there are Jews and false Jews, and to keep those would be decent people from realizing what is going on in the real world these Adversaries have taken over the western media wholesale with pro Zionist paymasters, and the other trick is to do there worst little by little so that generations anew cannot see the wrong being perpetrated as it started in there parents hayday and the voice of the parents dies with them because the media is caused not to echo the voice of those who knew.
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Wow, those for ever and ever poor Jews, falling from one holocaust – sorry: holohoax – to another, ie bringing genocides to the goyim…
el error mas grande que se a cometido por las naciones unidas en el siglo pasado es haber localizado a los ebreos sin una supervicion de las naciones unidas ,se debia haber delineado el area que ellos ocuparian y no haberles permitido bajo ningun concepto ocupar areas en el territorio palestino y esto a traido como consecuencia una ocupasion ilegal de ISRAEL en territorios PALESTINOS por lo tanto considero que ningun pais deberia estar de acuerdo con la posicion de ISRAEL ,ademas esto seguira causando problemas en esto siglo y ademas puede traer consigo un catastrofe de perdidas humanas incalculables si las NACIONES UNIDADES no toma una actitud firme y mandatoria con el govierno de israel por el vien de nuestras generaciones futuras
Can't they just divide the territory in half and each side take one, build up a wall and stop all the killing. Israel sounds like a pre-school or childcare without the civility or maturity.
@Josh R – So you don't think that Palestine belongs to the Palestinians?
When I see a disclaimer prior to posting my words, like the one I pasted from your blog below… and you DECIDE what can be viewed or not viewed..I question it.
Moderate this…Freedom of speach to all!
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La degradacion Humana mostrada por los Nazis,fue dentro de una Guerra Avierta y Declarada; Los Zionistas estan cometiendo el mas macabro ,bestial , sanguinario ,Holocauso contra un Pueblo Inerme sojusgado y en un territorio serrado por los criminales ejercitos mata-infantes: esta sangre Inocente sera lavada por la mas Plena Justicia; Sepanlo,Zionistas, su fin toca a la puerta, no podran huir de la Justicia . El clamor de la Humanidad, Mundialmente crece dia a dia; el Mundo Vien que save ,quienes son los GENOCIDAS. Justicia Plena Para Palestina,YA.
Looks like a virus spreading to me!
Like a terrible terrible virus that must be stopped.
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Benjamin H. Freedman, Jewish Historian – Researcher – Scholar.
From "Common Sense", p. 2-1-53 and 5-1-59
"Christians have been duped by the unholiest hoax in all history, by so-called Jews. This is considered their most effective weapon."
"This 'big lie' technique is brainwashing United States Christians into believing that Jesus Christ was "King of the Jews", in the sense that so-called 'Jews' today call themselves 'Jews'. This reference was first made in English translations of the Old and New Testaments, centuries before the so-called Jews highjacked the word 'Jew' in the 18th century A.D. to palm themselves off on the Christian world as having a kinship with Jesus Christ. This alleged kinship comes from the myth of their common ancestry with the so-called 'Jews' of the Holy Land in the Old Testament history, a fiction based on fable."
"American Christians little suspect they are being brainwashed twenty-four hours of every day over television and radio, by newspapers and magazines, by motion pictures and plays, by books, by political leaders in office and seeking office, by religious leaders in their pulpits and outside their churches, by leaders in the field of education inside and outside their curricular activities, and by all leaders in business, professions and finance, whose economic security demands that they curry the favor of so-called "Jews" of historic Khazar ancestry. Unsuspecting Christians are subjected to this barrage from sources they have little reason to suspect. Incontestable facts supply the unchallengeable proof of the historic accuracy that so-called "Jews" throughout the world today of eastern European origin are unquestionably the historic descendants of the Khazars, a pagan Turko-Finn ancient Mongoloid nation deep in the heart of Asia, according to history, who battled their way in bloody wars about the 1st century B.C. into eastern Europe where they set up their Khazar kingdom. For some mysterious reason the history of the Khazar kingdom is conspicuous by its absence from history courses in the schools and colleges.
"The historic existence of the Khazar kingdom of so-called "Jews", their rise and fall, the permanent disappearance of the Khazar kingdom as a nation from the map of Europe, and how King Bulan and the Khazar nation in about 740 A.D. became so-called "Jews" by conversion, were concealed from American Christians by censorship imposed by so-called "Jews", of historic Khazar ancestry, upon all U.S.A. media of mass communications directed by them. Then in 1945 this author gave nation-wide publicity to his many years intensive research into the "facts of life" concerning Khazars. The disclosures were sensational and very effective but apparently angered so-called "Jews" who have continued to vent their spleen upon this author since then solely for that reason. Since 1946 they have conducted a vicious smear campaign against him, seeking thus to further conceal these facts, for obvious reasons. What have they to fear from the truth?
"In an original 1903 edition of the Jewish Encyclopedia in New York's Public Library, and in the Library of Congress, Volume IV, pages 1 to 5 inclusive, appears a most comprehensive history of the Khazars. Also in the New York Public Library are 327 books by the world's greatest historians and other sources of reference, in addition to the Jewish Encyclopedia, dealing with Khazar history, and written between the 3rd A.D. and 20th centuries by contemporaries of the Khazars and by modern historians on that subject."
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