Israel and Palestine;Illustrating the reality with Maps

As the saying goes,a picture is worth a thousand words.

Palestine  1887 (each dot = an Arab village)-Palestinian’s were by far the majority.There were no empty swaths of country side as many have claimed and continue to claim.Indeed Palestinians can show ownership of lands going back centuries.

Palestine UN partition plan 1947 It should be noted that the U.N partition plan was unilaterally imposed on Palestinians by the European powers of the day .No Arab nation had a voice nor were any Palestinians involved in the deliberations leading up to the partition plan.None the less Palestinians were forced to   flee their lands(on map light green)by European Jewish  immigrants. Who in turn were fleeing Europe,  and  their fellow Europeans(Christians)  after suffering periodic  pogroms & discrimination throughout the centuries, ending with the  Holocaust of WW II.

Again Europeans committed these crimes not Arabs,sure as shit the local Palestinian population played no part. None the less it was they who paid the price,becoming  refugees. Again after being forcefully and violently evicted from their homes ,1947-1949,see Benny Morris. How “dare” Palestinians  object/resist…?

Palestine after 1967 The whittling away of remaining Palestinian lands(on map dark Grey) beings anew ,with the construction of hundreds of illegal settlements(violating numerous UN resolutions in the process).For a second time Palestinians are violently dispossessed through the use of terror attacks & expulsions, which continue to this very day . How “dare” Palestinians object/resist…?

Palestine 2005,hemmed in on all sides humiliated on a daily basis and separated into even smaller areas by hundreds of road blocks(no free travel between areas separated by road blocks),security zones,walls,Jewish settlements,curfews etc etc…and with their remaining lands(on map orange) fast disappearing.  How dare Palestinians object/resist…?   maps used can be found here Those reader who reject my source feel free to check out the U of Texas’s Perry-Castaneda map collection here.