Jewish Imperial Ambitions in Palestine and Neighbouring Countries
- Title:
- Jewish Imperial Ambitions in Palestine and Neighbouring Countries
- Alternate Title:
- Jewish Imperial Ambitions in Palestine and Neighbouring Countries
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Nakhleh, Issa
- Date:
- 1967
- Posted Date:
- 2024-04-25
- ID Number:
- 2411.01
- File Name:
- PJM_2411_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1960 - Present
- Subject:
- Other War & Peace
Politics & Government
Religion
Bias
Ethnocentrism - Measurement:
- 37 x 28 on sheet 46 x 32 (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- "Even before the State of Israel came into existence, Arab leaders accused Zionists of seeking to rule most of the Middle East," a secret Jewish plot to establish a "Greater Israel" extending from the Nile to the Eurphrates and the Persian Gulf, and south deep into Saudi Arabia. Albeit "farfetched" and a "calumny," this notion has "become so routinized and accepted" that it "now serves as the conventional wisdom in all the Arabic-speaking countries and Iran." Pipes 1998, 49, 69. This is one of two maps in the collection alleged to provide evidence of the "Greater Israel" conspiracy. (The other is ID #2424, "Dream of Zionism. Map of 'Greater Israel.'")
This map of "Jewish Imperial Ambitions In Palestine and Neighbouring Countries" is allegedly a copy of an "Original Map [that] was found during the Second World War in the safe of the famous Jewish Family of Rothschild in the City of Frankfort on Main - Germany." The portions of the country occupied by Israel after the Six-Day War in June 1967 are shown in red. The large part of the map colored yellow is described as "The area which the Jews hope & plan to capture." This includes all of Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and the Sinai Peninsula; the Nile delta region of Egypt along the Suez Canal and northwest of Cairo; and virtually all of Iraq, including access to the Persian Gulf. It also includes a large portion of northwestern Saudi Arabia, a corridor well over 100 miles wide along the Red Sea, stretching south more than 450 miles from the Gulf of Aqaba to the Holy City of Medina. "Curiously," the conspiracy theorists "see Greater Israel including Medina but not Mecca; the oil fields of Kuwait but not those of Saudi Arabia; and more of Turkey than Iran." Pipes 62.
The map was tipped into a rare pamphlet entitled "Jewish Neo-Colonialism and Wars Against the Arabs," published in August 1967 by the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine. The author of the pamphlet, Issa Nakhleh, was a Christian Palestinian lawyer with an LL.B. from London University and a Barrister at Law at Lincoln's Inn. He represented the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine in New York for some 40 years and served as legal advisor to a number of Arab delegations to the United Nations.
The pamphlet is an attack on Jews and their effort to seek a homeland in Israel, from the founding of the Zionist movement in 1895 to the "Illegal and Immoral" Balfour Declaration of 1917 to the Six-Day War. The author's message can be understood from a few of the chapter headings: "Jews commit genocide and war crimes;" "Jews despise and hate non-Jews;" "Jewish terrorism;" "Jews expel Palestinians by massacre;" "Jews deceive world public opinion by falsehoods." In addition to 46 pages of text, the pamphlet includes 29 plates. While most of the photos are general views, others are pointed: "The Arabs leaving their homeland under the pressure of Israeli terrorist army;" "One of the thousand victims of Israel Napalm bomb;" "A lonely child, his whole family was massacred in cold blood by the Israeli soldiers.”
The only discussion of the map in the pamphlet is the statement (p.15) that "Jews prepared and published in their periodicals and books a map showing their 'Jewish state' to include . . . all of Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, the Sinai Peninsula and a part of Saudi Arabia until the Holy City of Medina." There is no mention of the Rothschild connection.
Laid into the Collection's copy of the pamphlet is a "Dear Friend" letter from Gerald L. K. Smith, 1944 Presidential candidate of the America First Party and founder of the far right Christian Nationalist Crusade. Smith commends the work as "the true story of what happened in the Middle East in relationship to the Jews and the Arabs."
The Collection includes a number of maps related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Search > "israel* AND palest*".
Cornell University Library is pleased to present this digital collection of Persuasive Maps, the originals of which have been collected and described by the private collector PJ Mode. The descriptive information in the “Collector’s Notes” has been supplied by Mr. Mode and does not necessarily reflect the views of Cornell University. - Source:
- Nakhleh, Issa. 1967. Jewish Neo-Colonialism and Wars Against the Arabs. New York: The Arab Higher Committee for Palestine.
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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