@revelette3,
revelette3 wrote:I read a piece in the WP about the dueling history of the debate of Palestine. When an unbiased person reads the article, it is hard to know which version is actually the truth. How in the world is a person supposed to know the truth when both sides have such contrasting histories and everyone else has picked sides and so goes with whatever side they want to believe?
That is the same four map fallacy that started off this very thread.
The four map fallacy is wrong because it rewrites history and makes "Israel
giving land to the Palestinians" look like Israel is
taking land from them.
Frames one, two, and three of the graphic are reasonably accurate representations of: the area before Israelis returned to their homeland, the UN partition proposal, and Israel as it came into existence after the 1948 war.
But the last frame should be number
six and not number
four. They are skipping a couple steps.
The real frame number four should show Israel after the 1967 war, not only in control of current Israel and the West Bank, but also in control of the Sinai Peninsula.
Frame number five should show Israel giving up the Sinai Peninsula in exchange for peace with Egypt.
Then should come frame number six, depicting the land that Israel has
given to the Palestinians as part of the peace process.
The peace process has of course been halted by Palestinian violence. The current status of Palestinian territory was supposed to just be a temporary transition, with the Palestinians receiving even more land in the end. So there should also be a seventh slide, a repeat of slide number three, showing the land that the Palestinians would have been given if only they had agreed to make peace.