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From: מטות ערים <mattot.arim@gmail.com>
To: US 4Israel us4israel@gmail.com
Friends of Israel urge the Government of Israel:
Improve Israeli hasbara!
If you think Israeli embassies worldwide MUST clarify that the Palestinians do already have a state -- because the state known as Jordan was set up precisely to be a Palestinian state -- please sign here: http://www.atzuma.co.il/petition/avishalomf/1/ and pass this on. Your signature will be submitted to the appropriate government ministries in Israel by an Israeli grassroots organization called Mattot Arim (www.mattotarim.org).
BACKGROUND: The fact that a Palestinian state has long existed, in Jordan, is best explained in British historian Sir Martin Gilbert's classic work, Arab-Israeli Conflict: Its History in Maps. Read more about Sir Martin Gilbert, a scholar at the University of Oxford and an official biographer of Sir Winston Churchill, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Gilbert.
Page 8 of Gilbert's Arab-Israeli Conflict is a map of what Sir Gilbert identifies as the "Palestinian Mandate, granted to Britain at the San Remo Conference in 1920, as the region of a Jewish National Home". The area of the mandate -- Palestine -- in which, according to the terms of the mandate, a Jewish National Home was to be established -- is clearly seen to include the entire state of Jordan. Sir Gilbert's text accompanying the map explains that the area of Jordan was "separated from Palestine by Britain in 1921.... Named Transjordan, this territory was at once closed to Jewish settlement".
If your library does not have a copy of Gilbert's Arab-Israeli Conflict, there are similar maps on Internet, here:
REMINDER: If you think Israeli hasbara will benefit if this information is distributed,
please sign here: http://www.atzuma.co.il/petition/avishalomf/1/ and pass this on.
Thank you!
Thanks for helping Israel.
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