• oberstoffensichtlich@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    Oh those silly misleading maps again.

    In 1946 all the territory was under British rule as the British Mandate for Palestine. Palestinian was no separate identity back then. There were Palestinian Arabs and Jews. Lots of Jews called themselves or their organizations Palestinian like their newspaper, orchestras, or airlines.

    The green marked area encompasses not only land privately owned by Muslim, Druze, Christians, but also all state owned land. The orange is only privately owned Jewish land. So this is very misleading labeling.

    The 1947 partition plan was rejected by Arab Palestinians. They didn’t want it. It was never implemented. The Jewish state was assigned the bigger territory, however a huge part of that was the mostly uninhabitable Negev desert in the south.

    The 1949-1968 map is also incorrectly labeled. Gaza was occupied by Egypt and the West Bank was annexed by Jordan.

    The only time Palestinian land is actually ruled by Palestinians is on the last map.

    The whole map completely disregards the native Druze, Samaritans, and Bedouins.