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During a speech that saw him say Israel was on the 'cusp' of normalising ties with Saudi Arabia, Benjamin Netanyahu displayed two maps that showed the occupied Palestinian territory as being part of Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented a map without Palestine during his speech at the UNGA 78th session on Friday.
Netanyahu's map makes clear "what normalization really seeks: eliminating Palestine and Palestinians from the region."
Sooner or later Israel will discover that the future of its integration in the new Middle East remains dependent on a viable Israeli-Palestinian settlement.
From the blog of Barack Mandela at The Times of Israel