When asked why his latest map had erased the whole of the West Bank, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu retorted with the most detestable of answers. “I didn’t include the Dead Sea. It’s not shown on the map. I didn’t show the Jordan River. It’s not on this map. I didn’t show the Sea of Galilee,” was Netanyahu’s response.
The Israeli leader must have known that neither the Indigenous population of Palestine nor the West Bank including East Jerusalem — which are recognized as occupied territories under international law — are topographical or geographical phenomena.
It should be obvious that Netanyahu deliberately erased the West Bank from his map, which he displayed on Sept. 2 during another one of his tirades on why Israel must maintain “security control” over Gaza. There are plenty of factors that demonstrate that this assertion is true.
One, Netanyahu has erased Palestine and the Palestinians from previous maps as well, with the prime example being his “New Middle East” map, which he proudly held up during a UN General Assembly speech in September 2022.
Two, the Israeli PM does not even recognize the term “West Bank” in the first place. Even in his defense of why his latest map showed that Israel had swallowed the territory, he responded by saying that he “was talking about Gaza,” not “Judea and........