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Netanyahu's 2023 UN map showed the West Bank and Gaza as part of Israel

Filed by Omar Alahmad on 12 Nov 2026

The claim

“Netanyahu presented in the UN the PALESTINIAN map of Palestine without Israel.”

Made by C.S. Friedman (public figure, Science fiction and fantasy novelist).

Where it was posted: Quora, in an answer by C.S. Friedman

What the evidence shows

The evidence shows the claim is wrong.

The question directly asks about Netanyahu’s map but C.S. Friedman never actually talks about the map. She deflects and shows a completely different map, Abbas’s Palestinian map.

Look at C.S. Friedman’s answer. Look at the very second sentence: “Netanyahu presented in the UN the PALESTINIAN map of Palestine without Israel.” According to her, Netanyahu presented a map of ONLY PALESTINE yet we can clearly see it was ONLY “ISRAEL”.

The map Netanyahu presented at the UN in 2023 has no West Bank, no Gaza. Israel’s own newspaper, the Times of Israel, along with other outlets, reported that the map actually drew the West Bank and Gaza as part of Israel, coloured in as Israeli territory.

Germany, through their Foreign Ministry, publicly condemned the map Netanyahu presented.

In her answer, C.S. Friedman states: “replaces the names of Israeli cities with Arabic names,” as though the Israeli name is the true one and the Arabic is a hostile substitution. Jaffa, Haifa, Akka are ancient cities whose Arabic names were in use for more than a thousand years before the State of Israel existed. Before 1948, all three were major Palestinian Arab cities. So when a Palestinian writes “Yafa” on a map, he is not renaming an Israeli city but rather calling it by the name its people used for centuries.

First published on Quora: my original debunk.

Evidence

Both maps he held up showed the West Bank and Gaza as part of Israel.

The map "showed the West Bank and Gaza as part of Israel."

Germany's Foreign Office rejected a map that does not show the occupied or annexed territories.

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