Netanyahu uses a map that does not show occupied West Bank border
At a news conference on Monday evening, Israel’s PM showed a map with the Gaza Strip highlighted but the occupied West Bank border omitted.
The map was highlighted by several experts, including Mairav Zonszein, a senior Israel analyst at Crisis Group, as an example of Netanyahu’s erasure of the occupied West Bank’s existence as Palestinian territory.
Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, also responded on X, saying it shows that “from the river to the sea” is being presented “as a political plan by the man wanted by the ICC Prosecutor as an intel criminal”.
Of course, the West Bank does not exist on Netanyahu's map. And Gaza is the forever Israeli enclave.
This speech will go down in history as Netanyahu's open admission to that world that Israel will remain between the river and the sea indefinitely, as long as he rules. pic.twitter.com/JETV5X1WpR
When a Palestinian says "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free", it is a genocidal statement; when Netanyahu erases all of Palestine from maps and tries to make this a material reality, he is exercising "Israel's right to defend itself". Okay? pic.twitter.com/ihWCiz5Z17
Palestinian Foreign Ministry slams Netanyahu’s use of map omitting occupied West Bank borders
Palestine’s Foreign Ministry has slammed Israel’s PM Netanyahu for using a map that erased the occupied West Bank borders, calling it the “truth of the colonial and racist agendas of the extremist right-wing government”.
“Netanyahu continues and repeatedly uses a map that includes the West Bank as part of the occupation state, in clear and explicit recognition of this racist colonial crime, and disregard of international legitimacy and its resolutions, international will for peace, and the signed agreements,” the ministry said.
“This behaviour is a blatant challenge to international efforts to stop the war of extermination and displacement and revive the peace process based on the two-state solution.”
The ministry added that it views the use of the map as a “flagrant violation of international law”, especially as Israel continues its military operation in the occupied territory for a seventh consecutive day.
It is wild that Netanyahu openly uses a map that erases the whole West Bank with little to no coverage or pushback from the West.
The erasure of the West Bank is part of the same genocidal campaign as Gaza, a total assault on Palestinian existence made possible with US support. pic.twitter.com/LcdTvN9Nvm
— Assal Rad (@AssalRad) September 2, 2024
