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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. Image
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.

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Aug 17
This set of maps is designed to promote the lie that Israel has been stealing land from "Palestine" since 1946.

Shame on @thetimes for including it in an "explainer."

Here's an explanation of what these maps really show. 🧵 Image
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Map 1: "1946"

The first map purports to show “Historic Palestine,” and is filled with red, indicating that it is one self-governing state. In the period preceding British rule, the region was administered by Turkey and stretched into modern-day Lebanon and Syria. The area at the time was never a sovereign entity in its own right, and the boundaries shown in such a map do not reflect the boundaries of the region as administered by the Ottomans, nor as they appeared under previous rulers.Image
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The yellow "Jewish land" here evidently denotes areas where Jews lived. By that logic, then, surely there should be patches of red in later maps indicating the presence of Arabs living in Israel. By conflating Jews in this map with Israel in later maps, the map fundamentally misleads with regard to the issue it supposedly illustrates: the borders of a "Palestinian" state.
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Aug 17
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A blood libel disguised as a tragic war feature. The @nytimes “trauma of Gaza’s children” piece is built on distortions— from photos staged at propaganda sites (spot the red & white gate) to casualty figures framed to demonize Israel. We see you, NYT. 🧵 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/world/middleeast/gaza-children-school-play.html
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NYT says Israel has “killed 18,000 under 18.” The trick? They lump in 16–17-year-old militants with toddlers to paint all as “children.” Hamas’ own ministry admitted most deaths were combat-age males. NYT cherry-picks to make Israel look like baby-killers. Image
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Endless evidence—intel, videos, eyewitnesses—shows Hamas using civilians as shields. The NYT has admitted it before. Yet here, such facts are reduced to “Israeli claims.” Why? Because nothing, not even evidence, can interrupt its vile “Israel kills kids” narrative. Image
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Aug 14
She's beloved worldwide.
That’s why Ms. Rachel’s viral misinformation is so dangerous—it doesn’t just entertain millions, it shapes how the next generation sees the world.
With 16M subscribers and billions of views, Ms. Rachel is called the “Mr. Rogers” of our time.
But her foray into Gaza activism isn’t as innocent as it seems. Image
She shared this viral photo of a Gazan child, later revealed to have a congenital condition, and vowed she wouldn’t work with anyone who hadn’t spoken about Gaza. Image
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Aug 14
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@TIFF_NET decided to pull an Oct. 7 documentary from its lineup this year.

Why? It claimed it needed permission from Hamas to publish bodycam footage of the massacre.

Let’s take a closer look at the dangers of giving a terror group editorial control 🧵 https://www.timesofisrael.com/toronto-film-fest-nixes-oct-7-doc-screening-said-to-cite-hamas-ownership-of-massacre-clips/
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Hamas live-streamed Oct. 7.

When perpetrators document their horrific crimes for the world to see, they don’t get to decide whether they continue to be shared.

No one questioned when outlets published images taken by photographers of the crimes of Oct. 7 from inside Israel.
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This isn’t new.

When Nazi propagandist & filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl threatened to sue @simonwiesenthal for using her films without permission, Rabbi Marvin Hier famously offered to pay her… in Reichsmarks.
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Aug 13
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Despicable from @nytimes.
When the terrorist is Palestinian and his victims are Israeli Jews, the whitewash begins.
Zakaria Zubeidi — unrepentant mass murderer — gets the hero treatment.
Crimes blurred. Victims erased.
Let’s break down this vile feature 🧵 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/world/middleeast/zakaria-zubeidi-palestine-interview.html
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@nytimes paints Zubeidi as a victim – a repentant figure.
Reality: he’s never chosen peace.
From the start, his path was terror.
NYT spins it as if violence was his last resort, when it was always his first choice. Image
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NYT calls Ariel Sharon’s visit to the holiest site in Judaism “provocative” and the “spark” for the Second Intifada.
Fact: Yasser Arafat planned it months earlier. Sharon’s visit was the excuse. Image
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.@SkyNews' chief correspondent spent 2 weeks in the West Bank, covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
With all that time and resources, it’s remarkable how much he still got wrong.
Sky News filmed it. We’ll tell you what they didn’t. 🧵
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Sky News repeatedly downplays Israel’s security concerns.
This year alone, Israel’s security service has recorded over 2,000 attacks – from shootings to firebombs.
That’s the reality they brushed aside.
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Jews in the West Bank aren’t a monolith.
They live there for ideological, economic & social reasons.
So why did Sky News pick one man from the hardline Yitzhar settlement to stand in for them all?
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