Netanyahu erases Palestine (again)

News media went out of their way to obscure the land-theft maps, zooming in on the part showing Gaza right next to Israel. The New York Times, The Guardian, Haaretz, CNN and Reuters all decided in inital articles to avoid clearly showing Netanyahu’s map replacing the West Bank with Israel.

A Times of Israel article by Jacob Magid did raise questions and Dahlia Scheindlin criticized Netanyahu’s map of dispossession in a 5 September Haaretz column. The BBC showed the map, but in a caption reference merely said the map “appeared to have erased the occupied West Bank.” In fact, it was erased.

Netanyahu erases Palestine (again)