Oh dear, @IrishTimes. You've bought Abbas's lie, hook line and sinker. These maps do NOT show the diminishing size of Palestinian territory, despite Abbas's misleading claims.
As @GettyImages' original caption notes, this is a mixture of maps - some real, some only ever plans.
Let's look at the maps one at a time:
The first makes out as if all the land was under "Palestinian" control before 1917. In reality, the land was under Ottoman control. Inhabitants - Jews, Muslims and Christians alike - were called Palestinian.
The second map is of the Peel Commission’s 1937 partition plan. It called for a Jewish state, an Arab state, and an international protectorate enveloping Jerusalem.
The plan was accepted by the Jewish leadership, but violently rejected by the Arab leadership.
Some 'compromise.'
The inclusion of this second map is highly misleading as it was only a plan, and never the reality on the ground.
The same goes for map no. 3, which is of the 1947 UN Partition Plan, a plan rejected by the Arabs and accepted by the Jews. It, too, never became reality.
Had the Palestinian Arabs actually *compromised* there could have been a two-state solution that looked like this.
Instead, Arab rioting against Jewish businesses led to attacks against Jewish civilians, and a war soon followed, with Jewish areas coming under siege, cut off from food and water.
Again, some 'compromise.'
Despite the Arabs' best efforts, the Jews were not defeated. As a result of being forced to fight, the frontiers of the State of Israel were significantly larger than those in the 1947 and 1937 plans the Arabs rejected. This crucial detail is not clear from the map series.
In map no. 4, the status quo between 1949 and 1967 is depicted. These were never "borders" as Israel's enemies refused to acknowledge Israel's existence. These were mere ceasefire lines, with the understanding that the Arab countries would eventually move to erase Israel.
It's interesting to note what ISN'T included in this series of maps: Israel managed to preempt the 1967 attack by its enemies and gained control of the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza - only to later return them to Arab control.
But this doesn't fit the narrative of 'Israel steadily taking more and more land while the Palestinians are ready to compromise' so these stages simply don't appear.
This isn't the first time these maps have surfaced in the media. Learn more about them in this HonestReporting piece from earlier in the year.
🧵 1/ The @nytimes just profiled Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, nephew of Young Turks founder Cenk Uygur. Apparently antisemitism runs in the family—not that you'd know it from this glowing piece labeling him a "progressive." Yes, the guy who called Hamas massacres "resistance."
2/ The NYT goes to great lengths to sanitize Piker’s bigotry, claiming he "criticized the Israeli government" and "challenged norms." Apparently, calling Orthodox Jews "inbred" and dehumanizing a Jew who disagreed with him as a "bloodthirsty pig dog" are just norm-challenging.
3/ NYT calls Piker’s antisemitism mere "diatribes against the Zionist movement"—an absurdly tame way to describe a man who excused Hamas's rape and murder spree on Oct 7, saying "Palestinian resistance is not perfect." Apparently mass rape is a minor misstep to NYT’s new darling.
Hamas built an underground city. We built the map.🧵
Our new tool geo-locates 37 miles of Hamas’ tunnel network using open-source data—marking the first interactive map exposing the terror grid beneath Gaza.
Hamas spent 15 years and $1 billion creating this underground empire—built under hospitals, homes, schools, mosques, and graveyards.
Israel gets blamed for destruction.
But Hamas built terror into Gaza’s civilian infrastructure.
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How does a publicly funded outlet like @abcnews get away with broadcasting this Easter-week pile of propaganda?
Let’s break it down — because reporter @MattDoran91 clearly needs a crash course in journalism, not just social media scrolling.
2/ ABC reports that Christians were “corralled” and “beaten” by Israeli police outside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre — all apparently based on one viral video Doran spotted on social media.
3/ Doran claims Palestinian Christians were “pushed, shoved, and threatened.” Based on what?
What didn’t make it in? A police statement. Or the viral posts debunking earlier footage. Or the weeks of planning to safely host thousands at the Holy Fire ceremony.
🦁 ZIONIST BEASTS?
From bees to boars, sharks to spy eagles—some media outlets and influencers are convinced Mossad has turned the animal kingdom into a covert ops unit.
Let’s look at some of the wildest animal conspiracy theories.🧵
As Jews celebrate Passover at the Western Wall, @Independent's version of an @AP story is littered with historical & geographical inaccuracies.
Elevating the status of the Wall omits the Jewish connection to its actual holiest site - the Temple Mount.
Let's take a look. 🧵
Judaism's holiest site is the Temple Mt. The Western Wall is the holiest site where Jews are currently allowed to pray.
King Solomon's Temple stood, not on the area of the Western Wall, but on the Temple Mt. itself.
And "Cohen's blessing?" Time to stop using Google Translate!🤣
The paved area of the Western Wall Plaza is not a remnant of the Second Temple. It is simply the area adjacent to the Western Wall, which, itself, is the remnant of a retaining wall of the Temple Mount.
Hamas uses hospitals as shields—and the media lets them.
Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza was the latest example. Hamas turned it into a command center. Israel struck it. And the headlines? They focused on “lack of evidence.”
Let’s break it down.🧵
Instead of asking why Hamas was exploiting a hospital for terror operations, outlets like NPR, NYT, and CNN focused on the IDF not “offering proof” fast enough.
The media’s instinct to doubt Israel—rather than question Hamas—tells you everything.
This isn’t the first time.
Back in October 2023, Hamas blamed Israel for bombing Al-Ahli and claimed hundreds of deaths.
But U.S. intel showed it was a misfired rocket by Palestinian Islamic Jihad. And the media still ran with Hamas’ version.