{"id":28713,"date":"2023-09-23T13:03:36","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T20:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=28713"},"modified":"2023-09-23T13:03:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T20:03:38","slug":"netanyahu-shows-map-of-new-middle-east-without-palestine-to-un-general-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/09\/23\/netanyahu-shows-map-of-new-middle-east-without-palestine-to-un-general-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu Shows Map of ‘New Middle East’\u2014Without Palestine\u2014to UN General Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a map of “The New Middle East” without Palestine during his September 22, 2023 address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0(Photo: Spencer Platt\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Netanyahu made clear with his little map today what normalization really seeks: eliminating Palestine… from the region and legitimizing greater Israel, all with the blessing of Arab regimes,” one critic said.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

BRETT WILKINS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sep 22, 2023 (CommonDreams.org)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu angered Palestinians and their defenders Friday after presenting a map of “The New Middle East” without Palestine during his speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking to a largely empty chamber, Netanyahu\u2014whose far-right government is widely considered <\/a>the most extreme in Israeli history\u2014showed a series of maps, including one that did not show the West Bank, East Jerusalem, or Gaza. These Palestinian territories have been illegally occupied by Israel since 1967, with the exception of Gaza\u2014from which Israeli forces withdrew in 2005, while maintaining an economic stranglehold over the densely populated coastal strip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Middle East Eye<\/em>reported<\/a> Netanyahu also held up a map of “Israel in 1948″\u2014the year the modern Jewish state was established, largely through the ethnic cleansing<\/a> of more than 750,000 Arabs\u2014that erroneously included the Palestinian territories as part of Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Palestinian Ambassador to Germany Laith Arafeh said<\/a> on social media that there is “no greater insult to every foundational principle of the United Nations than seeing Netanyahu display before the UNGA a ‘map of Israel’ that straddles the entire land from the river to the sea, negating Palestine and its people, then attempting to spin the audience with rhetoric about ‘peace’ in the region, all the while entrenching the longest ongoing belligerent occupation in today’s world.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In case there is any doubt, Netanyahu made clear with his little map today what normalization really seeks: eliminating Palestine and Palestinians from the region and legitimizing greater Israel, all with the blessing of Arab regimes. pic.twitter.com\/nFxwEMAKVR<\/a><\/p>— Yousef Munayyer (@YousefMunayyer) September 22, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>