The changing map of Israel

Interesting but your history doesn't go back far enough. Look at the portions of Jewish properties seized by the Palestinians in the 1920s.
Also, the name "Palestine" was imposed by the Roman Empire to disassociate the area from the Kingdom of Judah. There has always been a Jewish presence in the land.
The peoples currently calling themselves Palestinians decry Jews as interlopers and occupiers. History doesn't support this assertion.
Certainly the land can be shared but to bomb Jewish peoples and call yourself a religion of peach is a crock.

Maggikotchmar, your map is true and information is correct. Please ensure that you include the whole truth though. Palatani is a latin term (or filistine in arabic) for the region, not an enthnicity. Please mention that all palastians are either of Jordanian, Syrian, or Egyptian heritage, which were exiles after they lost the wars in 1947-1948, and again in 1967 and so forth. Not only were they screwed when they lost the wars to Israel, but screwed by their own homeland which used them to proxy future sympathy by allowing them to suffer.

When the prophecy is fulfilled, after the near plight of the Jews, true justice will fall on the arabs when they lose their a majority of their kingdom to Israel. Those who do show mercy to Israel (i.e. Jordon and Egypt, who signed peace deals) will be given favor. Damascus will be destroy in one hour of one day (this prophecy was told more than 2500 years ago by the Jewish prophet Daniel (in chaldo-assyrian-Belshazzar during Babylonian captivity circa 554 BCE) and the only thing that can wreak that much havoc is an atomic bomb).

They say that Hamas is backed by Iran. Fine. Now the next point is...Not every Palestinian belongs to Hamas..in fact the ratio is quite small. As i said before-this is purely a political war and as usual,the common man is stuck in the middle and pays...

not to mention that israel grants arabs more civil rights than most of those 21 countries

If Israel gave all the land to The Palestinians tomorrow, Hamas would still want every Jew dead. This in a nutshell is why this post is either REALLY dumb. Or really partisan to the point of criminal. I hope is just that the poster wanted some good ol vibes from her leftest buddies and had no ill intent. But, this kind of crap is really stupid. Israel gave gaza to the Palestinians already, and the Palestinian president backs Israel, wanting the terrorist out of their country. The American leftist is so hungry for attention, they don't care who they hurt, how big the lies are. This is gonna backfire on them someday.

Now of course nobody wants to hear much from the Jewish perspective. This post peaked my interest so I tried to find something not only more up to date but also ones that indicated how the borders came to be changed and when. This is the most representative group I found.

Who better than the Israeli's themselves to know how their borders have changed?

http://www.unitedjerusalem.com/HISTORICAL_PERSPECTIVES/Maps_and_History/maps_and...

gaza was given back to the palestinians after international pressure to do so. but israel still has control over land and sea movements, as well as what goes in and out of the strip. so basically it is still being occupied.

The problem, this war isn't about the Palestinian difference in agreement over land issues. It is about Hamas and their Wannabe jihad on Israel, confusing the issue with this obvious problem between the two peoples is akin to lumping Saddam in on 9/11. Its apples and potatoes.

From a biological perspective, what does that visual change look like?

Seems Jews are hated by every country they have immigrated to, in every time period. You been married 9 times, hell maybe it's you.

What if you liveded in the northern part of our country and canada just casually started making subdivisions that made there way into any of the northern border states. Do you think our government would be complaicent? Hell no.

Prisons is a correct word for it and if 1/3 of these killed were children, when do we start calling genocide? Not to be one sided at all, I cant imagine being at the grocery and seeing a rocket randomly blow the place apart either..... But I will stand by the fact that who wins with an improvised weapon VS an F16 and tanks on all borders????? Who is the tyrant?

Apparently I'm going to be the among the few dissenters here. Reflect on this perspective if you will..... Should I (Israel)have a superior defense force, and you (Hamas) did not, and I have attempted to abide by numerous cease fire and peace agreements, and you did not, as well as refusing to negotiate in good faith to any form of peace agreement, as I have...then fire thousands (yes, thousands) of rockets at me over the years, as you have,... what prey tell do you think the eventual consequences will be ? You are fools to delude yourselves that I would not take any and all measures to bring you to your knees. War is hell, don't be so foolish as to engage in it with someone who wants to be left in peace, yet is willing and able to strike back at your fanaticism

hate breads hate, gargaryun.

I really recommend every person to read the book Teach Yourself the Israeli Palestinian Conflict by Stewart Ross.

It provides clear, concise information of every phase of the conflict, including a brief overview of the Biblical origins of each region.

And I think it will make you less biased when reading what's going on now, because you'll have a clearer view of why each side acts the way it does.

Now that I see the map, that area is really messed up, they've built one hell of a concentration camp there.

Hamas is being backed by Iran. Iran's president refused to acknowledge Israels right to exist. He denied the holocaust and vowed that Islam would destroy Israel. Why should Israel have any sympathy for an enemy who has vowed to destroy them?

We are Israel's greatest ally and we wonder why we are hated so much in the middle east.

Palestinians had no more right to that land than the jews. Half the land promised to the jews by Great Britain was taken back to form Jordan and given to the arabs. These so called Palestinians didnt want to live in Jordan they wanted their piece of the wealth created by Israel. Why dont their arab "brothers" inJordan give the palestinians land and aid?

Israel is overreacting to the Palestinian threat out of fear and bravado, not a desire to cleanse their ethnicity. Have any of you ever been to New Mexico? The US has indigenous people too. At least the Israelis aren't handing out small pox blankets.

Both sides have their wrongs,but there comes a time when it has to stop. When you take away people's basic rights and needs,put them in barbed wire fences and make their homes ghettos,they are going to retaliate...This basically a polical war,but as usual,the everyday man is the one that is suffering....The Israeli army so outdoes the Hamas,I can't see what Israel has to lose but to stop and talk...and why the US backs Israel is beyond me...Please....for the common man....stop and work this out...you don't have to be friends,but the killing has to stop!!!!!!!!

I hate when people don't link to a source.

I'm pretty sure that most people won't think that this tension is a Christian conspiracy - that's pretty clear..

..but, look! This IS reminiscent of the events described in the Bible's book of Revelation.

Can you see how the whole world, one day, will actually stop fighting among itself long enough to try to destroy Israel? The mechanics seem to be in place.....

That sounds like some bad shit... I know I wouldn't want to get shredded apart and burned...in that order...

Its clear to me that Israel will only have peace when it gets all the land it wants, then and only then there will be peace in that region, until then you can protest all you want, you can say what ever you want, Israel does not respect the law, they have proven it, time after time, and no need to start respecting the law any time soon. So I dont see this ending until they complete all their objectives. -

it is also important to mention how the shifting borders have annexed key water supplies.

That said, a series of walled prisons in which entire populations are forced to live primarily based on their religion sure sounds like concentration camps to me!

Now imagine you're Israel.

Create a secular state for Palastinians and Jews. Take the Star of David off the flag and the Menorah off the Emblem. Create a nation with a flag that represents both people and the unity they'd share under such a fair, equal state. Instead of this we have Israel and Palestine, fighting eachother for supremacy. The "Holy Land" does not belong to the Jews. The "Holy Land" does not belong to the Palestinians. The "Holy Land" belongs to both of them. If they had brains they would share what they have.

This is the greatest dispute of the 21rst century perhaps. The Jews have been more than compliant giving back numerous amounts of land, while under rocket and guerilla fire. The Palestinians are wrong to become so desperate. Using Hamas, who have committed extremely unethical attacks (the UN school building) as a means to an end. The Jews were once a thriving nation in ancient history, but were crushed by the Romans and practically everybody else after words.
But Palestine was a country before Israel was implanted.
A lagit peace negotiation must be reached to appease both the Jewish & Arab people.
Easier said than done.
I blame poor judgement from the Brits and Americans, post WWII, but the Arab people in the Middle East are very immature. Prone to Tantrums (Jihad).

Maggiekortchmar, I take no sides either. I present no maps in saying this. The people of this region need no maps to understand their divisions. Between the maps, cultures, religion, and divisive issues, they understand all too well why they want to kill each other.
Pictures of children torn apart, I've seen them. People with guns raised defiantly against tanks, take your pick. These are not going to bring peace. Holding on to your anger and passing to the next generation will not bring change, only more violence.
Two thoughts that I like credit my grandmother with, although I've heard hundreds of times from other people. Two wrongs do not make a right. Treat others the way that you would want them to treat you.

It's not the fact that there is so much anti-Israel sentiment around at the moment that is surprising - critiques of any nation should never be off limits.
What is quite astonishing though is the sheer volume of view and opinion on Israel (by people who probably see themselves as intelligent and well informed) that is superficial, staggeringly one-sided and, in many cases, seems to be nothing more than willfully ignorant and misleading.

And by the way, anyone who takes John Pilger's view on anything as balanced and objective, let alone authoritative, needs to ask themselves a few serious question.

Let Me see how bluntly I can put this....Until every U.S. Citizen that is screaming so loudly about how horridly the Israelis are treating HAMAS & the rest of the Palestinian People rise up in arms (figurativly) to FREE
Leonard Peltier,I will consider You nothing but a bunch of COWARDLY HYPOCRITICAL SHITHEADS...Clean up Our own house first.! OR Do any of You little punk wanna-be NAZIS even know Who I'm referring to?!?

Let em blow each other up. The more Hamas tries to hide behind it's people, the more of the people will die. Hamas needs to be treated like the terrorist organization they are, democractically elected or not. Good riddance.

Based on that map, if I were palastinian I would be launching rockets too. They are all but wiped off the face of the earth, thier country is evaporating. Just think if someone... say..... if at the height of the cold war the russians had done that in the united states, you think americans would not fight back?

The house of reps say pala wants isreal wiped off the face, but look at the map! israel IS wiping pala off the face of the map.

Israel has acted against Palestine as nothing more than an imperialistic occupying army. I'd be pissed off too If I were one of them

As the evidence piles up and signals that the Israeli's are building a concentration camp for the Palestinians, it just proves that they are no better than their 1940 Nazi counterpart.

They learned from the mistakes of the warsaw ghetto. Really. That was officially stated.

Sickening.

Walled prisons, a ghetto if you will.

is there a reason Israel has taken over so much Palestinian territory? what is the map like further back
prior to the 1940's ? I can understand why the Palestinians would vote in Hamas .. out of anger and frustration when you see what's been going on in recent decades.