New York Times and Washington Post redraw middle-east boundaries

McGraw's Spokesperson - Catherine Mathis – then stated:

As soon as we learned about the concerns with it, we placed sales of the book on hold and immediately initiated an academic review. The review determined that the map did not meet our academic standards. We have informed the authors and we are no longer selling the book. All existing inventory will be destroyed. We apologize and will refund payment to anyone who returns the book.

The New York Times should be ashamed of itself for publishing their similarly false and misleading maps.

Brownie points earned by the Washington Post in exposing the New York Times anti-Israel bias were forfeited when Kesslercontinued "to summarize the two versions of whether there was a historic Palestine for readers who want to hear both sides of the story."

The Pro-Palestinian version - according to Kessler maintains:

In the 18th century, the area saw the emergence of a new Palestine-based autonomous rule, spurred in part by the region's commercial dynamism, especially its trade in cotton and grain. In effect, between the 1720s and 1775 under the ruler Zahir al-Umar, there was an independent Palestinian state - longer than the British mandate.

Why publish such fabricated nonsense?

Palestine had then been part of the Ottoman Empire for 250 years and remained so until the Allied and Central Powers made their decisions on its future at the 1920 San Remo Conference.

Ending the flow of false information published by "respectable publications" remains a continuing challenge for Israel to combat and finally defeat.