By David Singer ——Bio and Archives--May 31, 2021
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The Washington Post's Glen Kessler--described as The Fact Checker--to his credit--was quick to point out the falsehoods in the maps "that showed a shrinking map of Palestine, from the borders of the British mandate for Palestine in 1947 to areas that would be under Palestinian control after adoption of a recent [Trump--ed] peace plan.".
- captioned: "Illustration by The New York Times/Photographs via Getty"
- appeared in: an article in the New York Times headlined "The myth of co-existence in Israel"
- was written by: Diana Buttu--identified as "a lawyer, former adviser to the negotiating team of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and Palestinian citizen of Israel"
"As soon as we learned about the concerns with it, we placed sales of the book on hold and immediately initiated an academic review. The review determined that the map did not meet our academic standards. We have informed the authors and we are no longer selling the book. All existing inventory will be destroyed. We apologize and will refund payment to anyone who returns the book."The New York Times should be ashamed of itself for publishing their similarly false and misleading maps. Brownie points earned by the Washington Post in exposing the New York Times anti-Israel bias were forfeited when Kessler continued "to summarize the two versions of whether there was a historic Palestine for readers who want to hear both sides of the story." The Pro-Palestinian version --according to Kessler maintains:
"In the 18th century, the area saw the emergence of a new Palestine-based autonomous rule, spurred in part by the region's commercial dynamism, especially its trade in cotton and grain. In effect, between the 1720s and 1775 under the ruler Zahir al-Umar, there was an independent Palestinian state--longer than the British mandate.Why publish such fabricated nonsense? Palestine had then been part of the Ottoman Empire for 250 years and remained so until the Allied and Central Powers made their decisions on its future at the 1920 San Remo Conference. Ending the flow of false information published by "respectable publications" remains a continuing challenge for Israel to combat and finally defeat.
Author's note: The cartoon — commissioned exclusively for this article — is by Yaakov Kirschen aka "Dry Bones"--one of Israel's foremost political and social commentators — whose cartoons have graced the columns of Israeli and international media publications for decades.
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David Singer is an Australian Lawyer, a Foundation Member of the International Analyst Network and Convenor of Jordan is Palestine International—an organization calling for sovereignty of the West Bank and Gaza to be allocated between Israel and Jordan as the two successor States to the Mandate for Palestine. Previous articles written by him can be found at: jordanispalestine.blogspot.com