Notes: See A Gazetteer of the Place Names Which Appear in the Small-Scale Maps of Palestine and Trans-Jordan, Jerusalem, 1941. Zena Agha served as Al-Shabaka’s US Policy Fellow from 2017 – 2019. Her ...

The map, which ends north of central Israel the West Bank, designates the territory of Israel included in it as “Palestine,” alongside Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Turkey.

In this interview, exclusive for Counterpunch, former United Nations special rapporteur, and international relations scholar Richard Falk, breaks down Palestine and Syria and the history and ...

Sir Arthur Wauchope, the High Commissioner of Palestine, returned today from a two weeks’ visit to Syria where he discussed questions concerning a change in the Palestine-Syrian boundary.