Due to popular demand I have created this page of maps and made them available for download. These are the same maps* I use for the briefings that are conducted prior to many of the tours. The sequence takes you through the development of the political geography of the region.
You can download individual maps or download the complete package of maps which includes all the maps below plus an additional 9 maps. This is a 10.5 MB file so it may take a while unless you have high speed broadband.
 © mideastweb.org | Pre 1918 The area now known as Israel, the West Bank, Gaza and Jordan was very different during the period of the Ottoman Empire. For 500 years a middle east feudal aristocracy controlled the vast tracts of land and the peasant farmers who lived there. There were no nation-states during this era. No Israel, no Palestine, and little of the nationalist ideologies of the 20th century. Download this map. |
 © PASSIA - Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs | 1918-1948 Since the Ottomans sided with the Germans during World War 1, they naturally lost their empire to the Western Allies who soon chopped it up into spheres of control. The British Mandate of Palestine was created on both sides of the Jordan River. In 1922 Transjordan was created as a kingdom for an aristiocratic Bedouin family. The British remained in control of Western Palestine until 1948 Download this map. |
 © ICAHD - Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions | 1947 During 1947, and the British were preparing to leave Palestine, the new United Nations debated the issues and finally published this map to divide the territory between a Jewish and Arab state. This proposal was never implemented Download this map. |
 © ICAHD - Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions | 1948-1967 During the war of May 1948 Israel conquered 22% more territory than had been allocated under the Partition Plan. This territory, about 78% of Western Palestine became the state of Israel, based on the 1948 cease fire line,known today as the Green Line Download this map. |
 © ICAHD - Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions | 1967-2009 In 1967 Israel conquered the West Bank and Gaza and began settling Jewish Israeli citizens in the territory. In 2006 Israel withdrew all settlers from Gaza and sealed the area. Palestinians became confined to cantons in the West Bank as the numbers of settlers increased to over 500,000 by 2009. Download this map. |
 © Negotiations Affairs Department - Palestinian Authority | 2000 At the Camp David talks of 2000 Israel presented this map as a take it or leave it proposition, also refusing to discuss the sharing of Jerusalem or a resolution to the refugee issue President Arafat refused since the West Bank would then be divided into three pieces, with no control of the eastern border with Jordan Download this map. |
 © ICAHD - Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions | 2009 The West Bank Palestinian cantons hardened after the first Netanyahu administration in the late 1990s Walls and fences were built to contain Palestinians inside ghettos while Israel expanded the settlements and built segregated roads throughout the West Bank Download this map. |
 © FMEP - Foundation for Middle East Peace | 2008-9 The segregated Arab-only roads in the West Bank connect the Palestinian cantons through tunnels underneath the exclusive Israeli-only roads that connect the settlements to each other and to Israel. Download this map. |
* Please note that these maps have various copyright holders, as noted, who should be credited if the maps are published elsewhere.
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2 comments:
Please be accurate. In the map that shows the UN decision to create a Jewish and Arab state, partitioning the land:
You wrote "This proposal was never implemented".
That is not the accurate. The UN passed the resolution, the Jews accepted it and the Arabs rejected it. Meaning, that the only people in the middle east who recognized a Palastinean state was Israel. The propsal was implemented de-facto but was shortl lived due to the Arab invasion of the area and their decision that the destruction of Israel was more important than the creation of a palestinian state.
The proposal was to allocate 56% of the Western British Mandate for a Jewish state and 44% for an Arab state. Israel conquered an additional 22% of the land and ended up with 78% of the land. The country was never partitioned along the lines that the UN proposed, thus their proposal was not implemented.
Keep in mind that while the Jews of Palestine declared their acceptance of the proposal, the Jewish Agency, and the Jewish militias were busy during the same period, clearing out Arab villages in the triangle area of the Galilee, and creating the beginnings of the refugee issue.
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