Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Elder of ZiyonGOP Rep. Nancy Mace is blasting supermodel Bella Hadid as “disgusting” for sharing an old photo of herself promoting a map that portrays all of the land in Israel as Palestine.The photo appears to have been taken during Hadid’s 2022 visit to the Qatar National Library, an event in which the 28-year-old nepo-baby cat-walker posed with the map, titled “Western Palestine.”“Bella Hadid is a disgusting human being,” Mace, a staunch Israel supporter, (R-SC) sniped Sunday on X with a screenshot of the supermodel’s post.
Here's the photo:
Why does this map say "Western Palestine" and not, you know, "Palestine"?
Doesn't this map imply there is also an "Eastern Palestine?"
And if Western Palestine's eastern boundary goes to the Jordan River, doesn't that mean that Eastern Palestine is in...Jordan?
And doesn't that mean that Jordan is indeed "Palestine?"
The map shown comes from the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine. They also started a Survey of Eastern Palestine; it was abandoned but not before they issued a map of what they called a portion of Eastern Palestine, in the area around the north part of the Dead Sea in Transjordan.
Let's take a closer look at the northern border of the map Hadid is studying so carefully:
It goes well into Lebanon, past Tyre.
Hadid is pretending to be standing in front of a map of historic Palestine - but every map of Palestine before 1920 or so included much of Jordan and much of Lebanon, as the PEF maps did.
Encyclopedia Britannica in 1911 had this one:
Palestinians love to say that they want to return to "historic Palestine." But unless your version of history starts with the San Remo Conference, historic Palestine has always been congruent with what Jews call Eretz Yisrael - the Land of Israel. Until 1948, the word Palestine was widely understood to be essentially the Latin language translation of the Holy Land - the land of the Twelve Tribes, as this 16th century German/Latin map shows. (This Arabic site admits that the few Ottoman maps that mention "Palestine" are copying the idea from European maps, meaning they also include the land of the 12 tribes.)
The reason Palestinian Arabs don't claim the entire area of what had been known as Palestine for centuries is because they don't want to create a state. They want to destroy one. Just as in 1964 they didn't claim any ownership over the West Bank and Gaza - since there were no Jews there - today they don't claim any ties to southern Lebanon and western Jordan.
Hadid didn't mean to do this, but if you follow her map, you can see that the entire modern Palestinian national movement is a giant cover-up of the fact that the only lands Palestinians ever demanded were the lands that were controlled by Jews.
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