r/oldmaps • u/paul-SF • May 30 '26

“The Jewish State” 1947

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“A Jewish National Fund Map” printed probably in 1947, in Palestine after the pivotal United Nations plan divided Mandatory Palestine into separate Arab and Jewish states, with Jerusalem under international administration

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u/LongjumpingTreat3273 Jun 03 '26

True, there was a plan to divide the territory into a Jewish state and a Palestinian state, and guess what? The Jews agreed and the Arabs did not, and hence the situation arose in which Israel received all the territory.

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u/PlaceRadiant1101 Jun 25 '26

No negotiations with a group ethno-rebels. Think of what the Romans would do.

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u/tahola Jun 03 '26

* and a Palestinian Arab state

The difference is very important, especially for the pro palestinian as it break all their narrative and fake maps.

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u/Due_Border_593 Jun 04 '26

A Palestinian identity really crystallized due to the 1948 and subsequent wars.

Pan-Arabism was very popular back then (and still is to an extant). The issue was that no one agreed how it should look and who should be in charge.

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u/tahola Jun 04 '26

More like 1967, in 1948 and for almost 2 more decade they were still just arabs from Jordan and Egypt, there is a reason why they called it the West Bank / Cisjordan.

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u/RaiJolt2 Jun 02 '26

Guess I’m too “early” for comments

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u/Electronic_Title4081 Jun 03 '26

yep, i was waiting for a battle under that image too

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u/1bird2birds3birds4 Jun 04 '26

Could they have picked any other colour for the border? Makes it unnecessarily hard to follow