>Came across this pic from a Reddit link. What do you make of this, is it correct or propaganda/misinformation?
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>http://www.funhostr.com/p/nab7FZkc/This_explains_a_lot

Certainly doesn't look like it's fully accurate. Among other things, it appears to show the Golan Heights as having been Israeli all along. If that's wrong, I wonder what else is.

They've also left out a map showing the land Israel captured in 1967 that they've now returned as part of treaties such as the Sinai peninsula. (I had a Hebrew School teacher at the time who was quite good at doing a free-hand drawing of Israel on the blackboard. I remember vividly when suddenly the map he draw was quite different.)

I'd also like to understand where the first map comes from. There were a lot of Palestinian Jews before the partition, and they'd been acquiring land for a long time, draining swamps and making the land usable for agricultural. The amount shown on the first map seems awfully small.

Of course, by showing only maps, the page fails to explain that it was the Arabs who rejected the partition plan shown in the second map.

Finally, since there's no scale given, and all the Arab countries around Israel/Palestine are omitted, there's no way to understand that the total amount of land shown there is tiny.

Thought they don't include the history, both of these seem to give better current context:

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.mapsofworld.com/israel/maps/israel-map.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.mapsofworld.com/israel/israel-political-map.html&h=135&w=89&sz=58&tbnid=Z1MS1rNe83wJ:&tbnh=135&tbnw=89&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=1&ct=image&cd=2

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://geology.com/world/israel-map.gif&imgrefurl=http://geology.com/world/israel-satellite-image.shtml&h=141&w=109&sz=56&tbnid=JQ3cZtU6tIkJ:&tbnh=141&tbnw=109&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=1&ct=image&cd=1

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