Netanyahu uses map that erases West Bank

Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed a map which erased the occupied West Bank at a news conference on Monday evening, reflecting Israel’s intention to annex the occupied territory.

Netanyahu stood in front of a giant digital map that erased the West Bank and explained why Israeli forces wouldn’t be leaving Gaza anytime soon.

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.

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

— Mairav Zonszein מרב זונשיין (@MairavZ) September 2, 2024

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”.

"From the River to the Sea"

People in #France, #Germany,
the #US, freak out when it is chanted by youths in solidarity with a people who's been genocided.

When it is presented as a political plan by the man wanted by the #ICC Prosecutor as an int'l criminal, not a peep.… https://t.co/tv9UFOSHuR

— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) September 3, 2024