Map of “Palestine” Erases Israel

As Palestinian Media Watch reported, last year Abbas held up a similar political map that presented a world without Israel. It included the PA flag above the entire land of Israel and was titled “Palestine.” It named all the neighboring states in English—Lebanon, Syria, Jordan Egypt—but failed to mention Israel.

On Abbas's maps, there is no Israel. Abbas openly ignores US President Obama's criticism of the use of such maps, letting the political and educational structures under his control continue to use maps that present a world without Israel. It is the only map used by the PA to represent “Palestine,” and at times even the “State of Palestine.”