GUEST,Raggytash - 26 Jan 16 - 07:20 AM

"Poor try Terriblossom. I can produce maps that do not show France, Germany, Italy, Serbia, Bosnia et al in their present borders."

Of course you can Raggy, but I liked the qualification you just slipped in there at the tail - "in their present borders." - so show me a map that predates 1970 that shows a COUNTRY called Palestine on a map. Now as we are discussing the creation of Israel from the former League of Nations Mandated Territory of Palestine (77% of which was hived off solely and exclusively for Arab settlement in 1923) To counter your claim that Palestine existed prior to Arafat's creation of it in the early 1970s I thought the map of the area of the previous owners might be of interest and guess what Raggy - no mention of Palestine to be seen anywhere.