The map above titled “Jewish Imperial Ambitions in Palestine and Neighbouring Countries” was an anti-Israel propaganda map published in August 1967 by the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine.
More about the map:
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.”
And this map is not isolated here is a more recent one one showing “Greater Israel” from the same collection:
About this map:
This map, “Dream of Zionism,” shows Zionism as a giant serpent, its back decorated with a pattern of triangles described as “Freemasons Eye, ‘Symbol of Jewry.'”
The snake’s circular outline marks the “Proposed Boundary of ‘Greater Israel,'” an area including 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.
This map first appeared in an English-language edition of the fraudulent “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” – the infamous blood libel against the Jewish people – published in Iran in 1985. Ibid.
This version appears in a new edition, “Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion,” attributed to “The Representatives of Zion, of the 33rd Degree” and published in Kuwait by the “Scientific Research House.”
The estimated publication date is 2018. The current version of the map varies only slightly from that of 1985 illustrated in Pipes: the words “Symbol of Jewry” have been added in script beneath the legend “Freemasons Eye,” and a partially legible signature (“Mir”?) appears at the lower right.
It is not clear what relationship, if any, the “Greater Israel” conspiracy theory bears to the Protocols.
While the Introduction and Protocol III do speak of the “Symbolic Snake” of Zion and relate it to Masonry, the Snake of the Protocols encircles all of Europe and bears no particular reference to Palestine or the Middle East.
Interestingly these maps seem to have even made it to Wikipedia. For example:
With the explanation:
CIA map of the Middle East modified by Aiden for Greater Israel article. This image showcases the most expansive interpretation of the land’s borders among prominent rabbis. Other interpretations claim narrower borders and a more modest size.
Note no sources for the prominent rabbis claim were given.
What do you think?
John says
Why call it anti Israel? It is the same as the ‘greater Israel’ one.
Robert OWEN, Jr. says
These are examples of antisemitic propaganda, similar to “The Protocol of the Elders of Zion”, one of the worst examples of this genre. You really need to label them as such.
Y.D. Robinson says
These maps are consistent with the biblical promise given to Abraham and his descendants (hence, the Greater Israel claims), albeit with a nefarious purpose on the part of Arab/Palestinian nationalists.