Thread by @ynkutner

A better view about the "Disappearing Palestine" propaganda maps.

Palestinians pretend to have existed for 2000, 3500, 5000 years, according to the different, and contradictory, narrative they use.
But no trace of such a people for the last 500 years in the Middle East. Here is the 400 years before WW I, on the Middle East map.

Then came the colonials during WW I and the Ottoman empire was dismembered. Two main beneficiaries: Arabs for 95% of it and Jews for the remaining 5%.
Progressively, Arabs get their due, but Jews get nothing.

Then in 1947, the UN recommended a sharing of the land intitially promised to Jews, between Jews and Arabs: the Partition Plan. Jews accepted, Arabs sisn't and continued terrorizing Jews.
The British went out and war broke out. Israel survived losing Judea Samaria and Gaza.

Then, the still unsatisfied Arabs cause a new conflict in 1967.
This time, Jews were ready for the attack and won in six days, liberating Judea Samaria from Jordan, Gaza from Egypt, and capturing the Golan from Syria and the Sinai from Egypt.

After another surprise attack by Egypt in 1973, Sadat decided to talk to Israel and discuss about peace. It was signed in 1979 and Sinai was progressively returned to Egypt.

In 1993, Palestinians started talks with Israel and the Palestinian Authority was established to build governement structures in prevision of the creation (for the first time in know history) of a Palestinian state.
In 1994, Jordan signed a peace treaty with Israel.

In 2005, Israel decided to evacuate its towns in the Gaza Strip and left PA in control of the territory.

In 2007, terrorist organization Hamas overthrew PA in a coup. They still hold the territory, from which they regularly lob rockets on Israeli civilians, causing three wars already and retaliations by Israel.
And that's the situation today.

You can now compare with the lying propaganda maps spread by anti-Israel people.
Note that the green parts are labeled "Palestinian Land" are in fact land not privately-owned by Jews. 80%+ of the whole area were in fact no one's property. 70% was just deserts of Negev and Judea.

So in that first lyng map, the propaganda is mainly in the legend: "Palestinian Land" instead of "Land not privately-owned by Jews".
Evaluation of Arab-owned land is less than 13% (7% for Jews). 80% was not privately owned.

The second lie in the first map is calling Arab-owned land "Palestinian land". In fact, the people living there were rarely the owners of the land or the of houses they were living in.
They were mostly tenants. Rich owners lived in bigger cities.

The third lie on the first lying map is calling the land "Palestine", instead of "British Mandate for Palestine".
In 1947, the British ruled that area, from river to sea, that was promised to Jewish settlement (and promised by the international community, only to Jews).

The second lying map is easy: this was the UN Partition Plan. The limits represented there never existed but on the paper.
Yet, Arab rejected it, while Jews accepted it, in an effort to make peace with Arabs.
Blaming Jews for not agreeing to it is a reversal of History.

The third lying map represents (correctly) Israel in its 1948 armistice lines (not borders, since Arabs never accepted them).
The lie is again in the green areas: Judea and Samaria were annexed by Jordan and Gaza Strip was under Egyptian control. Not "Palestine" or "Palestinian".

The fourth lying map is the closest to reality. Yet it is still a lie.
If part of Judea Samaria is indeed under PA control, Gaza Strip is under Hamas control. None of them is "Palestine" of course, since these limits are not borders, except for Gaza (but Hamas does not admit it).

So, in that fourth lying map, the green areas are controlled by non-state entities controlled by two different terrorist groups: Fatah/PLO for Judea Samaria parts and Hamas for Gaza Strip.

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