
Here’s more about how big they were, how they got them and what to happened to them in the decades since:
Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
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Here’s more about how big they were, how they got them and what to happened to them in the decades since:
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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:
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The map above shows the rather wild differences in wealth between Middle Eastern neighbours Yemen and Oman. You can see all the numbers below but why is Oman over 20x wealthier per capita than its neighbour?
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The map above shows what happened to Jewish communities in the Arab world from the founding of the State of Israel in 1948 to 2012. in 1948 there may have been as many as 850,000 Jews living in Arab countries, today that number is less than 5,000.
Here’s a summary of some of them:
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Saudi Arabia’s Highway 10 is famous for its extraordinary straightness, holding the Guinness World Record for the longest uninterrupted stretch of straight road globally.
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It was included in an excellent article by Nick Danforth in the Atlantic a decade ago titled: The Middle East That Might Have Been.
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The map above shows the 4 Catholic Crusader states as they existed in 1135 just before the start of the Second Crusade in 1147.
The states were:
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The map above shows what Trump’s failed peace plan for Israel & Palestine called the Peace to Prosperity: A Vision to Improve the Lives of the Palestinian and Israeli People would have looked like.
From the map: