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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on Friday (September 22), while addressing the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, held up a map of 'The New Middle East' without Palestine, thereby triggering yet another controversy.    #Israel #IsraelProtests #BenjaminNetanyahu #Palestine #IsraelPalestineConflict #IsraelMap #UN #NetanyahuUNSpeech                  ~PR.152~ED.102~HT.96~GR.125~

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00:00 to show a great blessing, the blessing of a new Middle East."

00:04 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday, while addressing the 78th session

00:09 of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, held up a map of the "new Middle East"

00:15 without Palestine, thereby triggering yet another controversy. The "new Middle East"

00:20 illustration showed the West Bank and Gaza within the boundaries of Israel.

00:25 He displayed two maps during his speech. One depicted Israel's geography in 1948,

00:30 accentuating its seclusion in the Middle East without the Allies.

00:34 The second illustration included countries that have peace agreements with Israel,

00:39 which included Egypt, Sudan, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Jordan. In his speech,

00:44 he underlined the significance of bolstering ties with Arab countries,

00:47 with a special emphasis on Saudi Arabia. After his address, he took to social media platform X

00:53 and wrote, "The greatest achievement in my life is to fight for you, the Israeli people,

00:58 and for our country. Shabbat shalom." Netanyahu used the map to show a new era of

01:03 peace in the Middle East that would include Palestine. However, his staunch critics say

01:08 that the illustration conveyed the opposite of what was intended.

01:12 The Israeli Prime Minister was widely denounced on social media for holding up the specific

01:16 illustration. The Palestinian Authority's representative to Germany, Laiet Arife,

01:21 shared a post on X saying, "No greater insult to every foundational principle of the UN

01:26 than seeing Netanyahu display before the UNGA a map of Israel that straddles the entire land,

01:31 from the river to the sea." Palestine and its people, while attempting to spin the audience,

01:37 build rhetoric about peace in the region, all the while entrenching the longest ongoing

01:41 belligerent occupation in today's world, he said. But as President Mahmoud Abbas already

01:46 responded yesterday, "Delusional are those who think peace in the region is possible without

01:51 the realization of the full legitimate rights of the Palestinian people," he further added.

01:55 Netanyahu on Friday told the United Nations that his country was on the cusp of normalizing ties

02:00 with Saudi Arabia. Peace talks between Israel and Palestinians broke down more than a decade ago,

02:06 and violence has soared over the past year and a half, with Israel carrying out frequent

02:10 military raids in the occupied West Bank and Palestinians attacking Israelis. Netanyahu's

02:15 government has approved thousands of new settlement homes in the West Bank, which Israel

02:19 captured in the 1967 war and which the Palestinians want for the main part of their future state.

02:24 Netanyahu has often seemed to revel in using the podium of the General Assembly to lambast

02:30 Israel's enemies. He famously held up a picture of a cartoon bomb in 2012 to illustrate Iran's

02:36 advancing uranium enrichment. In 2020, he claimed his bulla was stockpiling explosives near Beirut's

02:42 airport, prompting the Iran-allied militant group to organize an immediate visit by journalists

02:47 who saw heavy machinery but no weapons. The map he held up this year made no reference to the West

02:53 Bank, Gaza or East Jerusalem, territories Israel occupied in 1967 that the Palestinians want for

02:58 their future state. The map appeared to show Israel encompassing all three. The chamber was

03:04 largely empty during his address, though there was a group of Netanyahu supporters who clapped

03:08 several times during his speech. Protesters and supporters of Netanyahu demonstrated across the

03:12 street from the UN headquarters.

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