{"id":245449,"date":"2023-10-09T12:01:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T11:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=245449"},"modified":"2024-09-23T14:38:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T13:38:42","slug":"netanyahu-shows-map-of-new-middle-east-without-palestine-to-un-general-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/10\/netanyahu-shows-map-of-new-middle-east-without-palestine-to-un-general-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu Shows Map of \u2018New Middle East\u2019\u2014without Palestine\u2014to UN General Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cNetanyahu made clear with his little map what normalization really seeks: eliminating Palestine\u2026 from the region and legitimizing greater Israel, all with the blessing of Arab regimes,\u201d one critic said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

22 Sep 2023 – <\/span><\/em>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu angered Palestinians and their defenders today after presenting a map of \u201cThe New Middle East\u201d without Palestine during his speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York.<\/p>\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

Middle East Eye <\/em>reported<\/a> Netanyahu also held up a map of \u201cIsrael in 1948\u2033\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

Palestinian Ambassador to Germany Laith Arafeh said<\/a> on social media that there is \u201cno greater insult to every foundational principle of the United Nations than seeing Netanyahu display before the UNGA a \u2018map of Israel\u2019 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 \u2018peace\u2019 in the region, all the while entrenching the longest ongoing belligerent occupation in today\u2019s world.\u201d<\/p>\n

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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>\n

— Yousef Munayyer (@YousefMunayyer) September 22, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n