Chart of the day: Land and Freedom

By Alex Hern Published 19 July 2012
New Statesman

Supporters of a two-state solution must confront a stark question: is there enough land left for a viable Palestinian state?

The maps below, from this week's issue of the New Statesman, indicate how control of land has changed over time, between Jewish/Israeli and Arab/Palestinian administration:

 
 

7 comments

Julia Harris's picture

Fri, 2012-07-20 13:53 — Julia Harris

Don't forget this Chart http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Arab_Israeli_Conflict_6.png and this map http://www.plusaf.com/lessons/antisem.htm that flips it on its head and shows the vast expanse of Arab Muslim lands, Israel is surrounded by twenty-two hostile Arab/Islamic dictatorships containing many countries whom have waged war against Israel, trying to destroy it and murder the Jewish population.

The Arab nations could never have tolerated any kind of Jewish state as was proven during the war of Independence when. Dont forget this Chart http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/1948_War.html that shows how Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan and Egypt all tried to wipe Israel from history, nothing much has changed today in that they still have the same Venom towards the 1 Jewish state.

peace1940's picture

Fri, 2012-07-20 13:32 — peace1940 (not verified)

Survival of the fittest. If you are strong you dominate, if you are weak you shrink.

RH47's picture

Fri, 2012-07-20 14:21 — RH47

So you dismiss the victims of the concentration camps as simply 'weak'? An interesting perspective on history.

Anon999's picture

Fri, 2012-07-20 13:52 — Anon999 (not verified)

Of course, survival of the fittest for sure. That's especially when Israel gets totally wiped off the map within ten years.

AAMVN's picture

Fri, 2012-07-20 10:03 — AAMVN (not verified)

Two states? These maps demontrate the folly of any such 'solution' and betray the Isreali agenda with crystal clarity.

Ioni's picture

Fri, 2012-07-20 13:08 — Ioni (not verified)

Yes, the agenda was to allways be 2 steps ahead of the genocidal aspirations of their neighbours. This is the map you get if religious war is waged upon a neighbour not keen to be put through genocide twice. If you want another map, ask all arab and muslim nations waging, supporting, financing, manipulating, and politically benefiting from this war during the last 6 decades to change their ways.

Anti-Zio's picture

Fri, 2012-07-20 13:49 — Anti-Zio (not verified)

Genocidal aspirations? An what would you call Israel's policy towards Gaza, one of the poorest areas in the world, dying thanks to the blockade. Genocide. What would you call the constant displacement of innocent Palestinians thanks to Israeli terror for the last 64 years? Ethnic Cleansing. What would you call the discrimination against Palestinians living in Israel purely on the grounds they aren't Jewish? Apartheid. All three crimes against humanity. All three Israel is guilty of. But the Zionist project is dying, there's no possibility of it surviving the way it is. Like South Africa the injustice will end and Palestinians and Israelis will live in one state equally and there's nothing you Zios can do about it. Bye bye Zionist project. Mission failed.

Latest tweets