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Showing Original Post only (View all)Fact Check: MSNBC’s Palestinian loss of land map [View all]
http://mondoweiss.net/2015/10/check-msnbcs-palestinianLast week, MSNBC aired a map (above) showing the loss of Palestinian land to Zionist settlers and then to Israel from 1946 to the present. Following criticism from Israelis and their supporters, MSNBC apologized and stated that the map was incorrect. But was it? The following is a fact check of MSNBCs map and the criticisms of it.
Does the map accurately show the loss of Palestinian land since 1946?
Yes. The map accurately depicts the land that has been forcibly taken from Palestinians since 1946, two years before Israel was established and the accompanying expulsion of between 750,000 and a million Palestinians to make way for a Jewish state.
During and immediately following the states creation in 1948, Israel expropriated approximately 4,244,776 acres of Palestinian land. In the process, more than 400 Palestinian cities and towns were systematically destroyed by Israeli forces or repopulated with Jews. Most Palestinian population centers, including homes, businesses, houses of worship, and vibrant urban centers, were demolished to prevent the return of their owners, now refugees outside of Israels pre-1967 borders or internally displaced within them. (See here for interactive map of Palestinian population centers destroyed during Israels creation.)
Israels systematic dispossession of Palestinians is ongoing today, both in the occupied territories and inside Israels internationally recognized pre-1967 borders, where Palestinian citizens of the state and those living under occupation continue to be pushed out of their homes and off their lands including entire towns to make way for Jewish citizens and settlers. Today, there are approximately 650,000 Jewish settlers living illegally on occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and Israels settlement enterprise covers approximately 42% of the West Bank.
Does the map accurately show the loss of Palestinian land since 1946?
Yes. The map accurately depicts the land that has been forcibly taken from Palestinians since 1946, two years before Israel was established and the accompanying expulsion of between 750,000 and a million Palestinians to make way for a Jewish state.
During and immediately following the states creation in 1948, Israel expropriated approximately 4,244,776 acres of Palestinian land. In the process, more than 400 Palestinian cities and towns were systematically destroyed by Israeli forces or repopulated with Jews. Most Palestinian population centers, including homes, businesses, houses of worship, and vibrant urban centers, were demolished to prevent the return of their owners, now refugees outside of Israels pre-1967 borders or internally displaced within them. (See here for interactive map of Palestinian population centers destroyed during Israels creation.)
Israels systematic dispossession of Palestinians is ongoing today, both in the occupied territories and inside Israels internationally recognized pre-1967 borders, where Palestinian citizens of the state and those living under occupation continue to be pushed out of their homes and off their lands including entire towns to make way for Jewish citizens and settlers. Today, there are approximately 650,000 Jewish settlers living illegally on occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and Israels settlement enterprise covers approximately 42% of the West Bank.
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Deal with it. Deal with reality. Deal with what zionism has done to the Palestinians.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2015
#8
What is the yellow area! What is the yellow area! Keep on changing that subject, and
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2015
#12
What's laughable is the pretense that Palestinian land hasn't been taken.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2015
#30
The tenets of Zionism dictated that the Jewish homeland had to be liberated from Arabs.
Little Tich
Oct 2015
#40