This map of the Middle East was one of the controversial maps published by the Pro-Palestine Herald in the autumn of 1937.
On 7 July 1937, the report of the Peel Commission, formally the Royal Commission on Palestine, was published. In it, the British commission proposed for the first time that the partition of the Mandate of Palestine was the only possibility for maintaining stability in the mandate.
Following that recommendation, the Pro-Palestine Herald decided to publish a series of maps, including this one. Although its name may be confusing, in current terminology, the Pro-Palestine Herald was a Zionist newspaper published in Chicago between 1932 and 1939, which sought to defend the rights of Jews in the Eastern Mediterranean. Despite its Zionist editorial stance, the newspaper was funded by the American Christian community.
On this map, you can see the Peel Commission's proposal, dividing Palestine into the suggested state for the Jews in the north-west and the suggested state for the Arabs in the south-east. In addition, the map is accompanied by a text that reveals the propagandistic nature of the piece. The lower title makes an initial statement complaining that, with the partition of the Ottoman Empire, the United Kingdom granted a large territory (Syria, Iraq and Arabia) to 14 million Arabs, while now it only wanted to provide a small territory in north-western Palestine to 17 million Jews.
The great trap of numbers is that, in the Mandate of Palestine in 1937, there were only one and a half million inhabitants, of whom barely a quarter were Jewish. Almost all of them were located precisely in the north-west of the mandate. The Pro-Palestine Herald, As a Zionist medium, it took into account all the Jews in the world, 17 million, with the right to occupy the territory of Palestine.
The complaint, in addition to the small size of the territory, was also about its quality, as it stated that the area designated for the Jews was arid and semi-arid, completely ignoring the fact that this is the case for almost the entire Middle East.
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