West Bank and Gaza – the only area of former Palestine remaining unallocated between Israel and Jordan.
President Abbas was parroting similar claims made on hundreds of Arab oriented web sites asserting that the Jews established the State of Israel on 78% of the historic homeland of the Palestinian Arabs in the War of Independence in 1948 and subsequently conquered the remaining 22% – the West Bank and Gaza – in the Six Day War of 1967.
This has created the perception that Israel currently occupies 100% of “the historic homeland“ depriving the Palestinian Arabs of a State of their own within that territory, and that the only just solution to resolve their grievances is the creation of such a state in the 22% captured by Israel in 1967.
This propaganda has been given credence by such diverse and influential opinion makers as Editor at large