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I think Israel captured the Golan Heights in 1967, didn't they?

>>>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
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>>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.
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>Are we looking at the same thing? The map seems to show the Golan Heights as Israeli only from the 1947 partition on.
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>>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.)
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>>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.
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>I agree with you, although, I don't know for certain how accurate or inaccurate that map is. I am sure though that the map of the 1947 partition proposal is a far cry from the way the map would have been before it. Of course, it's just a map, and even though the Israelis were given more land than the Arabs, a large chunk of that land was the Negev desert (not exactly arable).
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>>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.
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>Speaking even as a Jew, I have to admit that had I been Arab at that time, I think it's likely I'd have rejected the proposal too. Especially when you consider that, at the time, 2/3 of the population of the territory was Arab and only 1/3 was Jewish and that 2/3 of the population really had no voice in the proposal.
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>>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.
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>>Thought they don't include the history, both of these seem to give better current context:
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>>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
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>>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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>>Tamar
I ain't skeert of nuttin eh?
Yikes! What was that?
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