Mediocrates
03-24-2011, 07:26 AM
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/03/23/juan-cole%E2%80%99s-map-of-lies/2/
Juan Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History. He claims to be a Middle East historian (http://www-personal.umich.edu/%7Ejrcole/jcpers.htm) and expert. He has served as the president (http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/1414) of the “Middle East Studies Association.” At least one scholar has accused (http://www.meforum.org/789/juan-cole-and-the-decline-of-middle-eastern) him of being personally responsible for the intellectual bankruptcy plaguing Middle East studies. Cole is an anti-Israel and anti-American extremist (http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/10404), and his extremism prevented him from getting a job offer from Yale (http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/2668) a few years back. He is probably best known (http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/1414) for his professing beliefs in grand Jewish conspiracies. He tosses around the term “Zionofascists (http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/4309)” when he means “Jews.” He led the pro-Saddam lobby (http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=9198) and is a Hamas apologist (http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=29628). He loves to spread (http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=9198) anti-Jewish blood libels. He is bosom buddies (http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=9106) with Neo-Nazi anti-Semitic conspiracist nuts, like Justin Raimondo (who claims the Jews and not al-Qaeda were behind the 9-11 attacks on the US).
For those who think that the fascist method of The Big Lie must be restricted to slogans or phrases, you should never underestimate the value of a false map. Perhaps the world title for telling a Big Lie by means of a map, or rather a pseudo-map, now belongs to the pseudo-academic Cole (http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/06/11/engineers-of-the-next-final-solution-recommend-juan-cole%D7%92%E2%82%AC%E2%84%A2s-informed-comment/), regarding “Palestinian lands.” He has decided that lands owned by the British imperial mandatory governing in control of “Palestine” between the world wars were “Palestinian land.” Those are the “Palestinian lands” he claims were stolen by Israel. Now, as it turns out, those were “Palestinian lands” only in the sense that they were state land owned by the British “Palestine” mandatory government. They were by and large not lands owned by “Palestinian” Arabs. And they were by and large completely empty.
Those were the lands taken over by Israel when it became independent that Cole maps as “Palestinian lands.” Today Juan Cole is the daddy of the world’s most absurd propaganda pseudo-map, which purports to tell the history of “Palestine.” The map can be viewed (http://www.juancole.com/2010/03/israel-humiliates-biden-announces.html) here and is entitled “Palestinian Loss of Land 1946 to 2000.” It consists of four frames (http://www.leedspsc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/israel-palestine-map.jpg).
The first frame is labeled “Palestinian and Jewish Land 1946.” It shows “Palestinian land” in green comprising more than 90% of “Palestine” (defined as the area later forming Israel, the West Bank and Gaza). Most of this “Palestinian” land was “Palestinian” only in the sense that it was public land owned by the British mandatory government of “Palestine.”
The second frame shows the UN partition plan 1947, under which roughly equal slices of land in Mandatory Palestine were assigned to a proposed Jewish state and a proposed Palestinian Arab state. Unwittingly, the map prepared by Cole makes the Israeli case. Readers might want to ask of Cole and his friends embarrassing questions, such as why that Arab Palestinian state never arose. After all, the Jews accepted the compromise proposal. The answer that Cole does not want you to know is that the Arab states invaded the territory militarily and gobbled up most of the what had been earmarked for a Palestinian state. Readers might also wonder how come half the segment of Western Palestine that had been reserved for the Jews after Transjordan had been truncated from Palestine was being offered to the Arabs.
Juan Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History. He claims to be a Middle East historian (http://www-personal.umich.edu/%7Ejrcole/jcpers.htm) and expert. He has served as the president (http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/1414) of the “Middle East Studies Association.” At least one scholar has accused (http://www.meforum.org/789/juan-cole-and-the-decline-of-middle-eastern) him of being personally responsible for the intellectual bankruptcy plaguing Middle East studies. Cole is an anti-Israel and anti-American extremist (http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/10404), and his extremism prevented him from getting a job offer from Yale (http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/2668) a few years back. He is probably best known (http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/1414) for his professing beliefs in grand Jewish conspiracies. He tosses around the term “Zionofascists (http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/4309)” when he means “Jews.” He led the pro-Saddam lobby (http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=9198) and is a Hamas apologist (http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=29628). He loves to spread (http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=9198) anti-Jewish blood libels. He is bosom buddies (http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=9106) with Neo-Nazi anti-Semitic conspiracist nuts, like Justin Raimondo (who claims the Jews and not al-Qaeda were behind the 9-11 attacks on the US).
For those who think that the fascist method of The Big Lie must be restricted to slogans or phrases, you should never underestimate the value of a false map. Perhaps the world title for telling a Big Lie by means of a map, or rather a pseudo-map, now belongs to the pseudo-academic Cole (http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/06/11/engineers-of-the-next-final-solution-recommend-juan-cole%D7%92%E2%82%AC%E2%84%A2s-informed-comment/), regarding “Palestinian lands.” He has decided that lands owned by the British imperial mandatory governing in control of “Palestine” between the world wars were “Palestinian land.” Those are the “Palestinian lands” he claims were stolen by Israel. Now, as it turns out, those were “Palestinian lands” only in the sense that they were state land owned by the British “Palestine” mandatory government. They were by and large not lands owned by “Palestinian” Arabs. And they were by and large completely empty.
Those were the lands taken over by Israel when it became independent that Cole maps as “Palestinian lands.” Today Juan Cole is the daddy of the world’s most absurd propaganda pseudo-map, which purports to tell the history of “Palestine.” The map can be viewed (http://www.juancole.com/2010/03/israel-humiliates-biden-announces.html) here and is entitled “Palestinian Loss of Land 1946 to 2000.” It consists of four frames (http://www.leedspsc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/israel-palestine-map.jpg).
The first frame is labeled “Palestinian and Jewish Land 1946.” It shows “Palestinian land” in green comprising more than 90% of “Palestine” (defined as the area later forming Israel, the West Bank and Gaza). Most of this “Palestinian” land was “Palestinian” only in the sense that it was public land owned by the British mandatory government of “Palestine.”
The second frame shows the UN partition plan 1947, under which roughly equal slices of land in Mandatory Palestine were assigned to a proposed Jewish state and a proposed Palestinian Arab state. Unwittingly, the map prepared by Cole makes the Israeli case. Readers might want to ask of Cole and his friends embarrassing questions, such as why that Arab Palestinian state never arose. After all, the Jews accepted the compromise proposal. The answer that Cole does not want you to know is that the Arab states invaded the territory militarily and gobbled up most of the what had been earmarked for a Palestinian state. Readers might also wonder how come half the segment of Western Palestine that had been reserved for the Jews after Transjordan had been truncated from Palestine was being offered to the Arabs.