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Why Netanyahu erased Palestine from the map
RAMZY BAROUD dissects the Israeli PM’s cartographic deceit, exposing how the erasure of Palestinian territories reflects a broader strategy of denial, displacement and eventually the extermination of an entire people
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands by a map that doesn't show Palestine's West Bank
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WHEN asked why his latest map has erased the whole of the West Bank, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu retorted with the most detestable answer.
“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 occupied territories of West Bank and East Jerusalem — which are recognised as such under international law — are topographical or geographical phenomena.
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