ISRAEL & PALESTINE THE MAPS TELL THE TRUE STORY
by Edward Morgan
The truth is that far from being the poor victim it likes to portray itself as, Israel
is in fact the most aggressive and belligerent nation in the region, having invaded pretty
much everyone it shares a border with.
The following maps show just who is wiping who off of the map!
The above map is Israel as it was first created by UN declaration in 1947. The blue portion
is Israel, the rest is all Arab lands. Note that Jerusalem was completely within Arab
lands and Israel was much smaller than it is today. Note also that there is NO Israeli
presence inside the area surrounding Jerusalem. No settlements, certainly no IDF. The red
square outlines the approximate region shown in the map to the right. This is Israel as
it is today. Note that the western border of Palestine has been pushed up to Jerusalem.
Such a land grab is NOT the result of a defensive act, but of an invasion to bring Jerusalem
under Israeli control, even though Jerusalem was not originally part of Israel. The maps
clearly tell the story of an Israel conquering lands which do not belong to it. Since Sharon
took office, Israel has built more illegal Jewish Settlements on Palestinian land. Note
on the above map that the majority of the lands which were originally Arab lands when
Israel was created, are now under complete (dark blue) or partial (green) Israeli control.
Only the black areas remain to the Palestinians, and those are shrinking by the minute.
How does a defensive action result in the total conquest of someone else�s lands?
The answer is that it does not. Israel is the aggressor. The maps of Israel then and
now prove it.
Stop buying into what Sharon claims Israel �has to do� and look at what Israel has
actually done. The maps tell the story of a nation eager to conquer lands which do not
belong to it. Israel has invaded virtually every nation it shares borders with, including
Syria and Lebanon, and as the map above shows has almost conquered Palestine and is ready
to �ethnically cleanse� the region. Far from being the poor victimized society desperately
defending itself Israel likes to pretend it is in order to wrest more money from Americans,
Israel is in fact the most militarily aggressive nation in the region.
Israel has ALWAYS portrayed non-Israelis as animals, in order to make it easier for the
American tax payers who pay for the weapons accept their killing. And Israel has always
resorted to staged terror bombings to further its agenda, such as the Lavon affair and more
recently when a supposed suicide bomber turned out to be a known Israeli collaborator. In
one recent case photos showed that what was reported as a suicide bomb in Jerusalem was
actually a car bomb
Even now, the Israeli media admits that nobody (other than the purported bomber) was actually
hurt in this latest bombing. Now, would a real anti-Israel suicide bomber, obviously
able to select where and when the bomb is to go off, really choose to detonate the bomb
when there is nobody around, damaging ONLY buildings?
So, if you are being lied to about the Jerusalem bombings, and with Israel�s past use of,
indeed PRIDE of, deception as a tool to be used against friend and enemy alike, it�s
time to take another hard look at the fact that every other nation on Earth except the
United States is opposed to what Israel is doing.
You know, if the United States REALLY wanted peace in Palestine, all they have to do is
stop signing the checks that pay for Israel�s war machine.
�Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I
want to tell you something very clear: Don�t worry about American pressure on Israel. We,
the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it.�
� Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, October 3, 2001.
HISTORICAL PALESTINE Another claim that Israel likes to make is
that Palestine never really existed to start with.
�How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.� Golda
Maier, March 8, 1969.
�There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.� Golda Maier Israeli
Prime Minister June 15, 1969
Oh?
The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.
� Exodus 15:14
Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken : for
out of the serpent�s root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery
flying serpent. � Isaiah 14:29
Howl , O gate; cry , O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved : for there shall come from
the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times. � Isaiah 14:31
Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine?will
ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your
recompence upon your own head;� Joel 3:4
And again, the maps tell a different story.
One can imagine who complained and why! The video can also be watched or downloaded here.
The following is by Nima Shirazi
Specific references to �Palestine� date back nearly five hundred years before �the
time of Jesus.� In the 5th Century BCE, Herodotus, the first historian in Western
civilization, referenced �Palestine� numerous times in chronicle of the ancient world, The
Histories, including the following passage describing �Syrians of Palestine�:
��they live in the coastal parts of Syria; and that region of Syria and all that lies
between it and Egypt is called Palestine.� (VII.89) The above translation by Harry Carter
is featured in the 1958 Heritage Press edition of Herodotus� famous work. Both older and
newer versions corroborate the accuracy of the reference. A. D. Godley�s 1920 translation
of the crucial line states, �This part of Syria as far as Egypt is all called Palestine�,
while Robin Waterfield�s 1998 updated Oxford translationrenders the passage this way: �This
part of Syria, all the way to the border with Egypt, is known as Palestine.�
A hundred years later, in the mid-4th Century BCE, Aristotle made reference to the Dead
Sea in his Meteorology. �Again if, as is fabled, there is a lake in Palestine, such
that if you bind a man or beast and throw it in it floats and does not sink, this would
bear out what we have said,� he wrote. �They say that this lake is so bitter and salt that
no fish live in it and that if you soak clothes in it and shake them it cleans them.� (II.3)
Two hundred years later, in the mid-2nd Century BCE, ancient geographer Polemon wroteof a
place �not far from Arabia in the part of Syria called Palestine,� while Greek travel
writer Pausanias wrote in his Description of Greece, �In front of the sanctuary grow
palm-trees, the fruit of which, though not wholly edible like the dates of Palestine,
yet are riper than those of Ionia.� (9.19.8)
Despite the Zionists� claim �the Romans didn�t rename Judea as �Palestina� until
a hundred years after the death of Jesus,� contemporaries of Jesus also routinely referred
to Palestine as, well, Palestine. For instance, in the first decade of the 1st Century, the
Roman poet Ovid mentioned Palestine in both his famed mythological poem Metamorphoses
and his erotic elegy The Art of Love. He also wroteof �the waters of Palestine� in his
calendrical poem Fasti. Around the same time, another Latin poet Tibullus wroteof �the
crowded cities of Palestine� in a section �Messalla�s Triumph� in his poem Delia.
The noted Alexandrian Jewish philosopher Philo, writing around the 1stCentury CE, opined,
�Also Syria in Palestine, which is occupied by no small part of the very populous nation
of the Jews, is not unproductive of honourable virtue.� (XII.75)
The Jewish historian Josephus (c.37-100 CE) was born and raised in Jerusalem, a military
commander in Galilee during the First Jewish Revolt against the occupying Roman authority,
acted as negotiator during the Siege of Jerusalem in 70 CE and later penned vital volumes of
Levantine Jewish history. His The Jewish War, Antiquities of the Jews, and Against Apion
all contain copious references to Palestine and Palestinians. Towards the end of Antiquities,
Josephus writes, �I shall now, therefore, make an end here of my Antiquities; after
the conclusion of which events, I began to write that account of the war; and these Antiquities
contain what hath been delivered down to us from the original creation of man, until the
twelfth year of the reign of Nero, as to what hath befallen the Jews, as well in Egypt as
in Syria and in Palestine, and what we have suffered from the Assyrians and Babylonians,
and what afflictions the Persians and Macedonians, and after them the Romans, have brought upon
us; for I think I may say that I have composed this history with sufficient accuracy in all
things.� (XX.11.2)
The claim that the Roman emperor Hadrian, eager to punish Jewish inhabitants of Judea
after the Bar Kokhba Revolt, officially changed the name of the region to �Syria Palaestina�
or simply �Palestine� in 135 CE and forced the Jewish community into exile is dubiousat
best, especially when, by then, the terms �Syrian Palestine� and �Palestine�
had already been in use for over six hundred years.
The Balfour Declaration (emphasis added).
Foreign Office November 2nd, 1917
Dear Lord Rothschild,
I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty�s Government, the
following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted
to, and approved by, the Cabinet.
�His Majesty�s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national
home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement
of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice
the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the
rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.�
I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist
Federation.
Yours sincerely, Arthur James Balfour
From a reader:
Here is a follow-up to my previous e-mail which touched upon the topic of how many Zionist
Jews claim that Palestine doesn�t exist, never did exist ever, and of course, they
really want to wish away Palestine completely forever, that�s obvious.
Well, as I mentioned, if you look in your Bibles, you will clearly see Palestine on
the maps in there.
And I took the following photos at the local Palm Springs Air Museum, which focuses on
WWII history, in November, 2007.
What is also interesting to note, is how this museum, which as you will see, has a huge
wall map including Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East right around WWII. You
can clearly see Palestine (G.B.). The G.B.. stands for Great Britain, since after WWI,
Great Britain took over control of Palestine from the Ottoman Empire, whose base was in
what was to become modern-day Turkey. The Palestinians never suffered under Ottoman
control, nor British control, however, ever since Zionist Jews from Eastern Europe decided
to create a racist, ethno-centric militant Jewish state in Palestine (as they successfully
got a green light from Great Britain as in infamous Balfour Declaration of 1917), which
came into being as �Israel� in 1948, the Palestinians have mightily suffered ever since
then under militant Jewish rule, having to deal with militant Jewish terrorists, and
many fled in terror, hoping to return, however the Palestinian refugees have NOT been allowed
their inalienable Right to Return, nor compensated, even though it is their right according to
UN Resolutions, International Law and the majority of world opinion.
What is also interesting, and irksome, and so typical, is that some Zionist Jew just
had to put their propaganda on the map, as you will see in a following photo, even though
Israel was NOT in existence by the time of the WWI or even WWII. Zionist Jews are relentless
in spreading their misleading, self-serving, malicious and false propaganda in order to
deceive the American public so they will continue to support Israel blindly.
Here is the overview of the map:
Look closely to the right of the right plane�s tail with the letters BP above, and you will
see the Israeli propaganda on two pages in a black frame � a close up to follow further
below.
And here is the Israeli propaganda below, most of it is complete misinformation, since
Israel started that war and then slammed all of Lebanon, causing massive damage to infrastructure
all over Lebanon and killing thousands of innocent Lebanese civilians. However Hezbollah
was able to drive the Israelis out, thanks to the weapons and excellent intel they possess.
Unlike Gaza, their borders are NOT controlled by the Israelis, and they can rightfully defend
and arm themselves, surviving despite the outrageous, lethal barrage of bombings that
Israel rained down on Lebanon, completely out of proportion to any harm that Lebanon
was able to inflict on Israel (miniscule in comparison). They were �lucky� at least
to drive Israelis out of their country, again by the way. This is not the first insane massive
bombing attacks the Lebanese have suffered by the war-mongering Israelis, who still illegally
occupy some of southern Lebanon, the Sabaa Farms, and wants to claim the big river�s
water for Israel. That is one reason why Lebanon and Israel are officially at war and enemies.
I called up the museum and complained about the what I called Israeli false propaganda
there on the map, and the person who answered thanked me and said she would look into it.
I have not been back since to see if it was taken down. But as you can clearly see below,
yes indeed, there was PALESTINE on the map, and I pray to God it will be restored, and
once again the Palestinians will be able to live in peace and dignity on THEIR ancestral
homeland, safe, secure and sovereign. Note how this Israeli propaganda labels the Palestinian
Territory as simply West Bank. ALSO, please note that the Golan Heights, as shown in the
Israeli propagandistic map above, is SYRIAN territory and is ILLEGALLY occupied to this
day by Israel, but our mainstream media RARELY ever mentions that. This is why Syria and
Israel are enemies to this day. Oh, but we are supposed to believe that Syria just �hates�
Israel because it�s �Jewish�. HA. Hogwash! Stealing land is an ACT OF WAR in any culture.
NO ONE would tolerate some neighbor just stealing their neighbor�s land! How would YOU like
it??
The Department of Corrections: Ben-Hur, the LA Times & a place called Palestine
�You know the law � every son of Israel must have some occupation.�
� Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, Chapter IV
On September 26, The Los Angeles Times ran a short Calendar section item on the new belated
50th anniversary, fully restored DVD and Blu-Ray editions of William Wyler�s 1959 blockbuster
biblical epic Ben-Hur. The film, which was based on an 1880 novel by former Civil War
general and New Mexico territory governor Lew Wallace, is described by the paper as
a �period drama [that] revolves around Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston), a Palestinian nobleman
who is enslaved by the Romans, engages in one of the most thrilling chariot races ever
captured on screen, and even encounters Jesus Christ.� As no innocuous (or factual) mention
of �Palestine� goes unpunished, especially when the culprit is a major American publication,
the Zionist advocacy group, The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America
(CAMERA), was immediately on the case. The same day the Ben-Hur blurb appeared, CAMERA
issued a call to its supporters to contact the Times and complain about its usage of
the term �Palestinian nobleman� to describe Ben-Hur�s title character, claiming, �Of
course, there was no such place as �Palestine� in the time of Jesus, since the Romans didn�t
rename Judea as �Palestina� until a hundred years after the death of Jesus.� Considering
CAMERA�s supposed interest in �accuracy�, it should be noted that its condemnation calls
Ben-Hur a �1951 Hollywood blockbuster.� In reality, the film was released in November
1959.Nevertheless, two days later, as a result of CAMERA�s complain-campaign, theLA Times
printed a correction to its original item. It apologized for referring to Ben-Hur as
a �Palestinian nobleman� and continued:
�The character Ben-Hur was a Jew from Judea who lived long before the place now known
as Palestine was given that name.�
Unfortunately, the paper was far too quick to issue this correction and should have checked
some primary sources rather than merely rely on the flurry of emails and phone calls from
outraged and misinformed Zionists for their historical information.
To call CAMERA�s claim that �there was no such place as �Palestine� in the time
of Jesus� is a matter of revisionism is an understatement. The allegation is not only
simply false, it is a deliberate lie.
Specific references to �Palestine� date back nearly five hundred years before �the
time of Jesus.� In the 5th Century BC, Herodotus, the first historian in Western civilization,
referenced �Palestine� numerous times in chronicle of the ancient world, The Histories,
including the following passage describing �Syrians of Palestine�:
��they live in the coastal parts of Syria; and that region of Syria and all that lies
between it and Egypt is called Palestine.� (VII.89)
The above translation by Harry Carter is featured in the 1958 Heritage Press edition of Herodotus�
famous work. Both older and newer versions corroborate the accuracy of the reference.
A. D. Godley�s 1920 translation of the crucial line states, �This part of Syria as far
as Egypt is all called Palestine�, while Robin Waterfield�s 1998 updated Oxford translation
renders the passage this way: �This part of Syria, all the way to the border with Egypt,
is known as Palestine.�
A hundred years later, in the mid-4th Century BC (still nearly four hundred years before
the birth of Wallace�s fictional hero), Aristotle made reference to the Dead Sea in
his Meteorology. �Again if, as is fabled, there is a lake in Palestine, such that if
you bind a man or beast and throw it in it floats and does not sink, this would bear
out what we have said,� he wrote. �They say that this lake is so bitter and salt that
no fish live in it and that if you soak clothes in it and shake them it cleans them.� (II.3)
Two hundred years later, in the mid-2nd Century BC, ancient geographer Polemonwrote of a place
�not far from Arabia in the part of Syria called Palestine,� while Greek travel writer
Pausanias wrote in his Description of Greece, �In front of the sanctuary grow palm-trees,
the fruit of which, though not wholly edible like the dates of Palestine, yet are riper
than those of Ionia.� (9.19.8)
Despite the claim �the Romans didn�t rename Judea as �Palestina� until a hundred years
after the death of Jesus,� contemporaries of Jesus also routinely referred to Palestine
as, well, Palestine. For instance, in the first decade of the 1st Century, the Roman
poet Ovid mentioned Palestine in both his famed mythological poemMetamorphoses and his
erotic elegy The Art of Love. He also wrote of �the waters of Palestine� in his calendrical
poem Fasti. Around the same time, another Latin poet Tibullus wrote of �the crowded
cities of Palestine� in a section �Messalla�s Triumph� in his poem Delia. Incidentally,
Ben-Hur�s childhood friend and subsequent betrayer is named Messala.
The bulk of the action of Ben-Hur takes place in the third decade of the 1st Century CE.
The noted Alexandrian Jewish philosopher Philo, writing around the very same time, opined,
�Also Syria in Palestine, which is occupied by no small part of the very populous nation
of the Jews, is not unproductive of honourable virtue.� (XII.75)
The Jewish historian Josephus (c.37-100 CE) was born and raised in Jerusalem, a military
commander in Galilee during the First Jewish Revolt against the occupying Roman authority,
acted as negotiator during the Siege of Jerusalem in 70 CE and later penned vital volumes of
Levantine Jewish history. His The Jewish War, Antiquities of the Jews, and Against Apion
all contain copious references to Palestine and Palestinians. Towards the end of Antiquities,
Josephus writes,
�I shall now, therefore, make an end here of my Antiquities; after the conclusion of
which events, I began to write that account of the war; and these Antiquities contain
what hath been delivered down to us from the original creation of man, until the twelfth
year of the reign of Nero, as to what hath befallen the Jews, as well in Egypt as in
Syria and in Palestine, and what we have suffered from the Assyrians and Babylonians, and what
afflictions the Persians and Macedonians, and after them the Romans, have brought upon
us; for I think I may say that I have composed this history with sufficient accuracy in all
things.� (XX.11.2) [emphasis added]
Josephus� own emphasis on accuracy appears to be far more credible than that of CAMERA.
The claim that the Roman emperor Hadrian, eager to punish Jewish inhabitants of Judea
after the Bar Kokhba Revolt, officially changed the name of the region to �Syria Palaestina�
or simply �Palestine� in 135 CE and forced the Jewish community into exile is dubious
at best, especially when, by then, the terms �Syrian Palestine� and �Palestine�
had already been in use for over six hundred years.
It should certainly be pointed out that Wallace�s original text of Ben-Hur makes no mention
of �Palestine� and consistently refers to �Judea�, �Judeans�, �the land
of Israel� and �Israelites.� With this in mind, I agree that an appropriate description
of the Ben-Hur character would be as a �Judean prince� or even a �Jewish nobleman.�
Nevertheless, referring to him as a �Palestinian� is not at all inaccurate or incorrect, nor
should it be in any way offensive or cause of umbrage. To lead a charge against such
a reference is to promote not only the rewriting of history, both ancient and modern, but also
to encourage the continual Zionist efforts to erase, destroy anddeny Palestinian history
and culture in their own historic homeland.
And yet, the major U.S. newspaper went out of its way to announce that �Ben-Hur was
a Jew from Judea who lived long before the place now known as Palestine was given that
name,� a statement clearly lacking in any semblance of accuracy.
It appears to be time for the Los Angeles Times to issue a correction on their correction.
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