In 1938, my Dad bought himself a world atlas, Collier's World Atlas And Gazette. It's big, coffee table size, about 12" x 15", and even has colored maps, although the photos are all black and white.
Over the years, he penciled in - on the appropriate map - routes he had traveled and places he had been. It is a treasure trove of information that helps to document our family history.
On page 100 of this Atlas is a remarkable thing, something almost impossible to find today, a full page colored map of Palestine - the area modern Israel occupies today. The map shows roads all up and down the country, cities, towns and villages everywhere, listing it's area as 10,155 Sq. miles, supporting a population(in 1938) as 1,261,000 people.
By comparison, at the same time(1938) Vermont - with an area of 9,564 Sq. miles - had a population of 361,000 people, and New Hampshire - area of 9,341 Sq. miles - had a population of 470,000. In 1938, Palestine had almost double the population of Vermont and New Hampshire combined in roughly half the area.
Remarkable for a place that the Jews claim was "a land without people for a people without land".
This place -Palestine - is a place lots of otherwise reasonably intelligent people in the United States and Britain stubbornly refuse to acknowledge ever existed, and if they do grudgingly admit its existence, the old lie of "land without people" is instantly paraded out.
Of course, 1938 was ten years before UN Resolution 181 created Israel, effectively wiping Palestine off the maps to this very day.
It is a sobering reminder of what money, political intrigue and corruption can accomplish in a society that pays little or no attention - ours - and the onerous price we are now paying for our past and present culpability in this matter.
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