Showing posts with label maps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label maps. Show all posts

Thursday, October 07, 2021

Another Set of Mandate of Palestine Maps

Visiting the offices of the Israel Resource Center, I found another set of Mandate of Palestine maps in this 1948 book:

which even the NYTimes reviewed.

There is a set of maps illustrating the minimizing of the territory of the promised Jewish National Home, ratified by the League of Nations:

And what is unique is that it inludes the summer of 1948 Bernadotte Plan proposal and see here also.

Here is that map in detail:


and here are two others:


Provides more visual perspective on what was being drawn as the borders for the future Jewish and Arab states.

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Wednesday, May 26, 2021

Butto's Map Illustration

Diana Butto published an op-ed in the New York Times, entitled The Myth of Coexistence in Israelץ

It was illustrated by this misleading map series (yes, misleading):

So, to point out some very basic but important facts, I created another few maps:






And there's more: the diminishing Zionist homeland version (maps from decades ago)


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