The final results of the 2007 Jewish & Israeli Blog Awards are up.
As it has continued to mushroom, the JBlogosphere has (according to Israel National News) “changed the face of Israeli and Jewish media” — with an estimated 400 active Jewish and Israel-Related blogs currently publishing.
JCI’s post “Carter’s Maps: Worse Than Plagiarism” was among 75 nominations for Best Overall Post and among 12 finalists for that award. The post demonstrated that Carter’s maps were not only derived (directly or indirectly) from Dennis Ross’s book, but were — much worse — significantly altered and mistitled, to support Carter’s egregious libel of Israel: that it had offered the Palestinians in 2000 only a collection of disconnected “Bantustans.”
The truth — illustrated by the original maps and the text that accompanied them — was that Israel had offered a state on 97% of the West Bank and 100% of Gaza, with a capital in Jerusalem, sovereignty over the Temple Mount, an unlimited “right of return” to the new state, and a limited one to Israel itself — and the Palestinians turned it down, in favor of a new barbaric war.
The post generated over 20,000 page hits, as well as discussions on other, more prominent blogs and journals. It remains unrebutted to this date.
We didn’t do very well in the finals, but it is an honor simply to be listed in the same category as this post, written on September 11, 2006, the fifth anniversary of 9/11 — worth reading in its entirety before it gets placed in the time capsule.