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Originally Posted by i.beletesri
The biggest 'Loss' on the Skeptikos Propaganda Maps (Maps 1-2) was the UN partition and shows a LIE about what is "Palestinian Land".. since about 2/3 of what was shown as "Palestinian", like the Half-alone of Israel that is the Negev, was State Land passing from the Ottomans to the British to The Jews, owned by No Arab.
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The Ottomans were a colonial power, they did not own the land, they simply conquered it and oppressed the native Palestinians!
After the downfall of the Ottoman Empire Palestine went under British rule because the Arabs were tricked, they were promised independence for fighting the Turks in ww1 but the treacherous British did not stand to their word. And after ww2 the British gave Palestine, a land which never belonged to them in the first place, to the Jews in return for getting the US into the war (Balfour Declaration)
Fact is that Palestine is a land with a long history inhabitated by Arabs since at least 700 years!
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"For about two thousand years the name Palestine has been used internationally for the lands on both sides of the Jordan River... The name Palestine will here be used...to refer to the area from southern Syria (the Beqa Valley) to Egypt and the Sinai, and from the Mediterranean to the Arabian desert.
The Greek historian Herodotus called Cisjordan [the land west of the Jordan River] the Palestinian Syria or sometimes only Palaestina. Thus, there is a tradition from at least the fifth century B.C. for the use of this name..."
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http://www.israelipalestinianprocon....roduction.html