Palestinian Loss of Land The Myth of the 4 Maps

You may have seen anti-Israel activists display a map purporting to show gradual Palestinian loss of land - over 4 maps. This map is a lie. Kiki Hausdorff explains why.

[leakeisar]

Martin Luther King:
In a March 25, 1968, speech to the Rabbinical Assembly, Dr. King said: “peace for Israel means security, and we must stand with all our might to protect its right to exist, its territorial integrity. I see Israel as one of the great outposts of democracy in the world, and a marvelous example of what can be done, how desert land can be transformed into an oasis of brotherhood and democracy. Peace for Israel means security and that security must be a reality.”

[flydieselair]

I would say it is safe to say that, billions of people don't know this or refuse to accept it because it goes against their narrative.

[మనసంస్కృతి-నఢ]

One myth. Ethnic cleansing of Palastinians. Ethnic cleansing is associated with races or religions. Palastinians are Muslims. So practically it is not ethnic cleansing. Worst the case they can go to 50+ islamic countries have bee occupied by them in the last 1400 years as part of one islamic earth.
But for Jews this is only the tiny land left and they were the original inhabitants. They have been driven away through several holocausts. So the ethnic cleansing of Jews is being done.
On top of it, people should know that eradication of Jews is their duty prescribed in their book.
So guys - wake up. Palastine is just a blip in the ocean of such conflicts happening in the last 1400 years. What are ISIS, Taliba, Al-Quida, Hamas, Hizbul etc organisations? What is their objective? High time world wakes up to this dangerous reality.

[garypuckering]

1:51 She says the UN Partition Plan ended the British Mandate. This is incorrect. The British Mandate ended when it expired in May 14, 1948. The UN Partition Plan was exactly what it is called — a plan. It was a plan that was accepted by the Jews, but not by the Arabs as she goes on to explain. It had no effect in law.

A technical point that she doesn’t explain is this. On May 14, 1948 the Jews living within the boundaries of the British Mandate for Palestine declared their independence. They had a government and met all the criteria necessary for statehood — in contrast to the Arabs living within the territory, who in any event did not declare their statehood. Under customary international law, it was this moment in time that established the borders of the new state of Israel under the principle of uti posseditus uris (Latin for your land, by law). Those borders included the West Bank and Gaza (but not the Golan Heights). They can only be changed by treaty or cessation.

Jordan, by seizing the West Bank, and Egypt by seizing Gaza, in the war of 1948-49, became occupiers of those territories. Israeli, in the Six Days War of 1967, reclaimed what was by international law their sovereign territory. They left Gaza in 2005, but without ceding it to any other state. (The Palestinian Authority was not yet a state, and within 2 years was booted out as the governing authority in Gaza.)

None of these facts regarding the sovereignty of Israel over all of Palestine negates the fact that Israel has shown time and again a willingness to enter into an agreement with Palestinians to partition the land in order to provide a Palestinian state. The problem has been that the Palestinians have never had a government willing to agree to any of the offers, and the continued presence and control of Hamas and Hezbollah has meant that no such deal could be made unless it meant extinguishing the Israeli state.

This video provided a very good recap of the facts. My (minor) criticism is about what ended the British Mandate (not the UN Partition Plan) and the omission of a technical point pertaining to sovereignty and borders under international law. Her point about armistice lines is important to emphasize — they are not the same as borders and have no effect on legal matters of sovereign territory.

[LadyMaven]

The conflict has never been about land but about Jew hatred.

[guyking]

FACTS. 100% TRUTH.עם ישראל חי! 🇮🇱❤️ Thank you for telling the truth.

[kratos]

Thank god an educated person like you explains this palestine nonesense

[Ahmed_Kj]

Ok but you failed to explain a very important fact:
Canaan, Judea, Zion were always Jewish, Jews lived there for 4000 years. Sometimes more sometimes less people.
It is documented that Jews started to live in that land in 1700 and started to rebuild Jerusalem since 1840ies
Arabs first time came around 1880 looking for work! These are the arabs who came from Jordan Agypt and Syria. Them you call local arabs in the first map.
So it is better to show the entire map and start with Map one: Only Jews, map two Jews and Christians ( 1700-1880) Map 3 Jews Christians and Arabs 1880-2023

The radical arabs are now in Gaza, the Pro Israel Arabs live in Israel

[badasserien]

If Palestine existed as a nation, who was its first king, language and currency name?

[Xaroni]

Excellent!! This woman is doing a fantastic job, able to represent Jews like myself, without getting overly emotional or complicated (our story is over 3500 years old!!)

[ts]

Some glaring problems with that propaganda poster:

1. it purposefully leaves out times when Israel gave up big chunks of land for peace, which would disprove the false narrative of Israel seeking more land
2. Palestine was another name for the region of Israel given to it by the romans, which is not the same identity of modern day Palestine (Gaza and west bank)
3. it was under British rule and Palestine was synonymous with jews and Israel, because the arabs in the region didnt want to identify with the word Palestinian. We can show this through jewish businesses which were formerly called Palestinian businesses, or for example the palestine soccer team which was full of jewish players and wore the star of David.
4. the poster chooses arbitrary lines in modern history to create a narrative, when Jews are in fact the indigenous people of the land and we can add previous maps like the Kingdom of Solomon
5. there were no Arabs or Jews inhabiting the Negev desert because of its harsh conditions, and for the propaganda poster to paint the Negev as Palestinian Arab territory is misleading
6. the Muslim world is the one that has been seeking the gain of land through 14 centuries of jihad conquest, they attempted to genocide Israel plenty times but failed. When you start a war, and then lose it, you don’t get to dictate terms.

Each of the individual points above is undisputed historical facts and each point on its own completely destroys the narrative which the propaganda poster tries to create to make Israel look bad.

[michaellakous]

I hope you can teach some of us Americans the truth.

[thevillageyid]

1:57 this is key here, I think. It wasn't about land, it was about a Jewish state existing.

[sa-svredemption]

It's important to note that the first ever two state solution was adopted and the Arab side is still in force today. The League of Nations, the interwar predecessor to the United Nations, adopted a plan based on two agreements the British had made with the Bedouins and Jews respectively: each was to have a state of their own in the Middle East. The League of Nations plan was what is today Israel and Jordan, which was successfully adopted in 1921 (the whole region, as in this video, was rightly called Palestine, not just the bit west of the Jordan River). In 1920 the first Arab uprisings against the Jews started, based on pure antisemitism. These uprisings led to the establishment of the Haganah as the Jewish self defence force, and the 1930's Arab Uprisings led to the British Peel Commission, which drafted the first version of a third subdivision of Palestine (the same idea that the UN later adopted in 1946). So the idea of a two state solution has already been achieved and, for the Arab side, successfully implemented. It's a three state solution that is being sought after now, and against the plan accepted by the international community through the League of Nations agreement. Further, a second state west of the Jordan is unnecessary - Israel has been, since it's inception, an open state regarding the local Arabs. The thing that has changed is the extremist elements throughout local Arab society, not Israel's openness. Israel, like every other nation on earth (including all its neighbours), has undertaken significant counter-terrorism reforms, not changed it's policies on Arab Israelis. If it had, then there would be no Arab members of the Knesset, no Arab judges in Israeli courts, no Arab members of the IDF and Israeli police and security services. But this is not the case: Arab Israelis don't just exist, but operate as full citizens in every aspect of Israeli life. So no, Israel has not changed it's rules on Arabs, rather this whole situation is due to Arab extremists changing the situation for themselves and those now called Palestinian Arabs.

[jeremy]

A few more points I would love to see. The 1937 proposal for a Jewish state in the North (which the Arab Council rejected). Also the maps show only Jewish population centers in White, whereas the rest of the map (even areas mostly uninhabited in the southern desert) are depicted as Palestinian population centers. Perhaps the green should also just show Palestinian population Centers or find some way to depict density. Finally, weren't some areas inhabited by Druze, Bedouin, and others who see themselves as distinct from the "Palestinians"?

[RafaelRabinovich]

There should be versions of your video made in Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Russian, Arabic, and any major language that could possibly this be translated and produced in.

[xvadim]

Facts matter. Stand with the narrative that is moral and accurate.

[IrinaMurdakhayeva]

Great video. But I think we can’t change the mentality of hate within the radical Muslim world. Terrorist organizations need to be held accountable not just by Israeli government but also by the international community. We all need to get on the same page

[slepax]

Who was the Palestinian prime minister in 1930? There was never one, because there was never a state called Palestine.

[OldeJanner]

As the Hebrew tribes were historically owners of all this area, wtf are the Arabs bitching about?