It's a Lie: Palestinian Loss of Land and the 4 Maps
Perhaps you have seen this photo and associated disinformation on social media. It creates a false narrative using lies and the omission of key facts.
The simple truth is that the vast majority of Israel, through history since foreign powers scattered many of the Jews living there, was a barren wasteland. “Palestinians” never tried to create a state there and few lived outside of Gaza.
This video goes into some detail debunking this Hamas talking point:
It was only when Jews returned in larger numbers and started making something of the land that the “Palestinian cause” came to be. Even then it was never about using the land for something good, it was about denying Jews a state with a military so as to make it easier to kill them.
There have been multiple attempts to create a two-state solution and the Palestinians have rejected them all.
1937: Arabs reject the Peel Commission to create a Jewish and Arab state.
1947: Arabs reject the UN partition plan to create a Jewish and Arab state. Wage war against the new nation of Israel. Lose more land than the partition gave them.
1967: Israel wins yet another war against its Arab neighbors, conquering Gaza, the West Bank and Sinai in a defensive war. The Arab League declares the "three no's": No peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with Israel. Israel voluntarily hands control of the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism back to the Islamic Waqf, and made it illegal for Jews to pray there.
1979: Israel voluntarily hands the Sinai back to Egypt, returning land conquered in a defensive war.
1993: Israel recognizes the sovereignty of the Palestinian Authority over the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the Oslo Accords. Yasser Arafat uses it to support terrorism.
2000: Israel offers Yasser Arafat recognition of a Palestinian state in all of Gaza and 94% of the West Bank with East Jerusalem as its Capital. Arafat rejects it and launches the Second Intifada.
2005: Israel pulls out of the Gaza Strip, dismantles all its settlements, and forces Jews to leave their homes. Palestinians respond by electing Hamas who turn it into a terror state.
2008: Israel offers Mahmoud Abbas once again recognition of a Palestinian state in all of Gaza and 94% of the West Bank with East Jerusalem as its Capital and even offered to dismantle all their settlements. And once again, the Palestinians reject it.
2010-2021: Hamas launches periodic rocket attacks against the state of Israel and builds terror tunnels in order to kidnap and murder Jews while using the people of Gaza as human shields against the IDF.
2023: Hamas commits the worst act of mass murder against Jews since the Holocaust.
Available polling from the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion verifies that the overwhelming majority of Palestinians have no interest in a two-state solution with only 37.7 % support.